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immediately adopt the amendment with uses by right and special uses for residential subdivision.
Ag District Okayed
In a third unanimous vote, the planning commissioners on Tuesday recommended that the supervisors approve an agricultural and forestal district located between Washington and Sperryville with the bulk of the land in Gid Brown Hollow. The district includes approximately 3,500 acres owned by 26 individuals and one partnership.
In their recommendation, the commissioners upped the time for which the district will be set up from four years suggested by the Agricultural and Forestal District Advisory Committee to the eight year maximum allowed by enabling legislation.
In addition, they added a provision borrowed from Fauquier County's - ag districts prohibiting subdivisions as defined by Rappahannock's zoning and subdivision ordinances.
Property owners in an ag district are eligible for land use taxation whether or not the county has adopted a use value taxation ordinance. Col. Luke pointed out. however, that membership in an ag district isn’t all that's necessary to qualify for preferential tax treatment. Property owners must still meet land use criteria on parcel size, productivity and history of agricultural use.
Historical .
Society
Meeting
Voices from the past will speak to the Rappahannock Historical Society meeting on Friday. May 1st. through the medium of tape recordings made by Kathy Kiley. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.. at the Historical Society building on Gay Street in Washington.
Over the past several years. Ms. Kiley has interviewed senior citizens of Rappahannock County whose childhood memories go back to the early 1900’s. Careful editing of these tapes has resulted in many anecdotes of life at the edge of the Blue Ridge.
What was it like to live in our mountains 70 years ago? How long did it take to walk to school, or to church? How were apples packed and shipped in the days before TV. or even radio?
Come to the next meeting of the Rappahannock Historical Society and relive the early part of the 20th century through the eyes of some of the older residents.
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