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It 8 a zoning lesson that was learned by Steve DeMent, Levi Atkins and the Nationwide Pentecostal Evangelistic Association. It’s a lesson that’s been most recently picked up by John Burke and William Foster.
We invite anyone who’s concerned about zoning and planning in this county to read the legal notice for the November 13 BZA meeting which appeared last week in this paper.
First, William Foster is applying for a special use permit to run an antique business in Flint Hill. This same antique business had its grand opening on October 18 and 19—a month before the hearing on Foster’s permit. Better late than never is not the way zoning regulations are supposed to operate.
The second instance we’d like to point out is Burke’s application for a special use permit to build a second dwelling on an agriculturally zoned lot, less than two acres in size. By the time the BZA hears this request, the house will be finished.
We’d like to look at the history of Burke’s building project and compare it to what happened to another, similar request to show how the laws of Rappahannock County are applied. John Burke, Rappahannock native and minister for the Gid Brown Hollow Bible Church, walked into the zoning office on October 14 and walked out with a building permit supposedly to construct an addition on his home in Harris Hollow. The zoning administrator was informed on October 28, as work was beginning, that Burke was building not an addition but a second dwelling. Col. McNear checked the situation, found this to be the case and informed Burke that under provisions of the county’s zoning ordinance, he first needed a special use permit.
Burke applied for the permit to build and, in the meantime kept right on building. A BZA member was contacted, the chairman of the board of supervisors was contacted—all to no avail. Construction of the house continued and by this Tuesday, it was practically completed.
The BZA will be faced with a fait a compli at their meeting on Thursday. That second dwelling will be finished and what will the BZA members do? Issue the permit after the fact or deny the application, leaving the structure
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