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(Continued from Page 1) district. She was told, however, that the time limit for “tagging on” had expired.
Rather than leave Saltonstall's acres out of the application. the commissioners decided instead to begin all over again with the approval process for Dwyer’s requested district (which already includes tag-ons from Phil Irwin and Linda Dietel).
The planning commissioners stuck with that decision on Wednesday even after learning from Baumgardner that the supervisors can add agriculturally significant adjacent land to a district at the public hearing they hold as the final step in establishing an ag district.
Supervisor* Can Add On
Reading from the Virginia Code section that outlines the process for setting up a district. Baumgardner reported that the board of supervisors “may adopt as an ordinance the property or any modification of the (AFD) application it deems appropriate. including the inclusion, to the extent feasible. of adjacent significant farming and forest lands."
“That’s a direct contradiction” of the opinion given the planning commission by VPI’s ag district expert, Paxton Marshall, responded A.Y. Stokes, chairman of the planning commission.
“It makes me feel like a fool!" commissioner Newbill Miller added.
"Conceptually. I wonder why it was done. Why have an advisory committee...if the supervisors can add on land at their own initiative?” Baumgardner questioned. He emphasized, however, that the wording of the code is clear; the supervisors may elect to include adjacent land they feel is agriculturally significant.
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