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While the rest of the country is scrambling through an economic slump, there were clear signs at Washington’s council meeting last Wednesday that the town’s business life has never been healthier. The council issued two special use permits, one for expansion of an existing business and the other for reopening a long defunct enterprise.
Reinhardt Lynch, maitre d’ and co-owner of The Inn At Little Washington, won unanimous endorsement for a project to remodel the upstairs of the widely acclaimed restaurant into overnight accommodations.
“We’d like to make The Inn into a real inn," he told the council. Plans call for five or six double rooms, depending on space, each with a bath.
Rooms will be rented to patrons of The Inn for five nights per week, the evenings on which the restaurant is ^ open.
According to Lynch, the drainfield serving The Inn has extra capacity. He added that the drainfield will be expanded if the health department, now in the process of evaluating the septic system, determines that it is not adequate for the increased load from overnight accommodations.
Brad Fisher, the town’s water expert, estimated that increased water use from overnight guests would
89.5%