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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
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"I don’t think we need a firing range in "the county, period!” insisted Albert Doub, speaking for the majority of the 30-odd people—most of them from Amissville—who attended last Wednesday's planning commission public hearing on a proposed amendment to the county’s zoning ordinance.
The amendment would allow archery, skeet, trap or target shooting ranges subject to certain restrictions, by special use permit in an agricultural zone.
Under current zoning regulations, ranges are not allowed anywhere under any conditions in Rappahannock County, attorney E. P. Luke appointed out, adding that failure to provide a legal mechanism for allowing that use could be deemed exclusionary.
“It may be illegal and unconstitutional to say it (a shooting range) can’t go anywhere regardless of restrictions," acknowledged planning commissioner Newbill Miller.
David Konick, Washington lawyer and the county’s zoning administrator, noted that if the issue is tested in court and failure to provide for that specific land use is found unconstitutional, then a shooting range could be put anywhere without restrictions. However, he described the ordinance amendment proposed by Luke on behalf of Robert and Ruth Bowers, owners of the Blue Ridge Gun Shop in Amissville, as inadequate.
After learning from commonwealth's attorney Douglas Baumgardner that it is the planning commission’s responsibility to develop amendments to the zoning
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