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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
With a courtroom full of opponents and no development plan from the landowner, the Rappahannock Board of Zoning Appeals tabled a request last Thursday to convert a large chicken house into eight residential units.
The board delayed action on Steven Parlagreco’s application for a special use permit pending an on-site inspection and recessed its November 13 public hearing until the next regular BZA session on December 11.
During the hour and a half of testimony allowed before the courtroom had to be cleared for a trial, the BZA members listened to a barrage of opposition to Parlagreco’s request. Later, however, when the board continued its agenda in the clerk's office basement, E.P. Luke, chairman of the t Rappahannock supervisors, pointed out that multi-family residential is a permitted use in an agricultural zone subject to submission of a development plan and compliance with special requirements on screening, noise, pollution, smoke, odor and other items listed in Article 13 of the county's zoning ordinance. “It’s a permitted use. That's the law. If you meet the conditions (in Article 13), you -should get whatever it is you v (provided its allowed as A special permitted use). I don’t know what else we can go on,” Luke said.
Earlier at the court house, Luke emphasized that the requirement for a development plan had not been met. “I’d like to see some drawings that show electrical hook-ups, sewer, parking—all those things,” the supervisor chairman said.
Josef Gardiner, chairman for the BZA, responded that -a development plan must be submitted before a building permit is issued.
"Sometimes that’s the case, sometimes that’s not, the case,” countered Luke, adding that the BZA should stipulate that a plan is required and “not leave it to chance.”
Parlagreco brought only large color photographs of the Castleton Farms’ building on Route 616 which he proposes to convert into apartments. His attorney, Flint Hill lawyer M.F. Biddle, explained that Parlagreco plans to start a commercial vineyard on his 460 acre farm and needs affordable, convenient housing for laborers who will “be on duty
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