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In addition, said Fletcher, he requested the zoning administrator to determine where the flood plain lies on his client’s property. “1 can’t get anything done so I’m asking the planning commission for help.’’
“This is a bad situation,” commissioner Charles Estes replied. "No one wants to put the flood plain line in for Sperryville.”
Noting that other property owners have faced this same difficulty, Estes suggested that the planners recommend having the county engineer take on the job.
(Just two days before the planning commission’s meeting, Edward Woodward appealed to the Water and Sewer Authority for help in getting the local health department to run a percolation test on his property to determine if it could support a septic system. Woodward said he’d been frustrated in his efforts to get a perc test done because no one in authority would delineate the flood plain.)
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