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Zoning Questioned
Mrs. Schaefer pointed out that minutes of the supervisors’ meeting from March 11, 1969, show that C. E. Johnson Jr. and James W. Fletcher, then owners of the old co-op, applied for permits to erect a building there for use as a retail store, wholesale establishment andor warehouse. According to the minutes, she said, the property was zoned agricultural. She added that the zoning administrator had assured her that the town’s property lines have not been redrawn since that time.
BZA member Charles Estes interjected that the coop building is residential business along with the rest of the village of Sperryville.
Mrs. Schaefer repeated that as of May 12, 1981, the zoning administrator told bet, the property was Residential business,' agricutttifhi 'and' ' flood plain.
“We can’t be responsible for his statements. We never have been, countered Gardiner.
“I don't know who else to ask—he’s the zoning administrator,” Mrs. Schaefer replied.
Rappahannock’s official zoning maps, photostats of tax maps colored in to indicate zoning categories, are contradictory as regards the old co-op. Copies in both the zoning office and the clerk’s office divide the county into 60 sections. On both sets, map number 38 shows the property as agricultural with the boundary line following the center of the road, excluding the co-op from Sperryville’s residential business district. On map 38A. an insert of the village of Sperryville, the co-op is included in RB-1.
Further complicating the question, a special use permit issued to Gene Lyman and Robert Haase on July 14, 1977, to operate a cabinet business in the old co-op building gives the property’s zoning as RB-1.
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