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Miller noted that the seven-year-old zoning ordinance, adopted a decade after the county’s subdivision laws, had been amended and revised. “It wasn’t too bad ten years ago,” he said.
“I’m not knocking it," McNear explained, adding that Rappahannock’s land use controls are in better shape than neighboring Fauquier’s, the county he serves as professional planner.
Miller reported that all the planning commissioners are agreed on the necessity of major ordinance revisions to carry out the intent of preserving the county’s rural character, a goal supported by Rappahannock residents in opinion poll after opinion poll.
The first issue to be addressed, said McNear, is how to allow just about every conceivable land use somewhere in the county, suggesting this be done through special use permits.
He agreed that the commissioners can’t foresee each and every land use which may come up and therefore, must set up procedures for consideration of uses not listed in the ordinance.
He added that an industrial zone is generally selected as the proper location for most objectionable uses not covered under uses allowed by right or with a special permit.
No Zoning Boundaries
As a starting point in their revisions, McNear suggested that the commissioners list the zoning categories needed to control adequately land uses that now exist and then fit all the county’s current uses into a category.
“You have several problems. One is that your conservation and agricultural zones are defined but they’re hot delineated,” the planner said.
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