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It took George Cook three months to get his special use permit and during that time, he was told that he couldn’t build without that permit.
It took John Burke just a few minutes to get a building permit. By the time he gets the required special use permit which we believe the BZA will grant on Thursday, his house will be ready for occupancy. When Burke asked what he should do in the interrum before the BZA considered his request, he was told to use his own judgement on whether to continue building.
We’re not opposed to issuing a special use permit for John Burke to build a little house for his elderly mother. We’re opposed to the continued mis-application of Rappahannock’s zoning laws.
Sooner or later, it’s going to all come back in the county’s face. Sooner or later, some arm of Rappahannock government is going to try to rely on local laws to deny an inappropriate land use. If the developers are smart, they’ll take the county to court to challenge the denial. Common sense tells us that a judge with any knowledge of the situation here will laugh Rappahannock right out the court room, finding the county’s application of its own laws arbitrary, capricious and inconsistent.
It's time our county government learned that you can’t pick and choose and enforce some of the laws on some of the people some of the time. It’s a zoning lesson Rappahannock needs to memorize before it’s too late.
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