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Limits Proposed
Estes reported that he’d received one call from a neighboring resident in favor of Johnson’s application who expressed concern only about work at the body and paint shop going on past 10:30 p.m.
Gardner asked Mrs. Schaefer if she would object to the permit should limits be placed on hours of operation.
“I don't want any limits. I don’t want it period—for the noise and other reasons.” she answered.
Johnson interjected that work in the building would primarily involve painting which requires that windows and doors be kept closed in order to keep humidity low. Of the ten adjoining properties, Johnson said, the co-op is bordered on the north by a large farm and on the west by the Emporium with the remainder divided between six owner-resident dwellings and two non-owner resident dwellings. After objections were raised at the BZA's first hearing as to noise from pounding, banging and radios blaring all night long, he said he spoke to neighbors and found their reactions were quite different when he explained what he planned to do.
Johnson said that when he ran the Sperryville Exxon station, he didn’t leave cars sitting on the lot all night and didn't condone loafing or anything else offensive to his clients or to the people of Sperryville. “I will operate this with the same respect for my neighbors,” he said.
He balked, however, at limiting work to just his own vehicles. “If I could afford to, I would limit it to my own but I can’t.” He added that his “main intention” is to
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