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granting a special use permit.
“You could put in a dynamite factory and have nowhere near a 500 foot setback,” Luke noted. He reminded the supervisors that Baumgardner, who also serves as county attorney and the board’s legal advisor, had expressed reservations on the 500 foot setback.
In conclusion, Luke recalled that the planning commissioners asked the NRA’s range expert for minimum lot size for a range. “He said there was no minimum size for a safe range...That it could be perfectly safe with an indoor range on a quarter acre lot.”
“This is an entirely different activity than anything allowed anywhere else in the ‘driunty,” countered chairman J. R. Latham in support 'of the 500 foot setback, for shooting ranges.
No Setback For Dump
Under Rappahannock’s current zoning law, both landfills and race tracks could be built without any setback at all, Luke responded, noting that the ordinance applies setback only to structures. “It’s hard to single out one activity and say its got to come up with a 500 foot setback,” he said.
The amendment proposed by the planning commission also specifies that noise standards in Article 13 of the zoning ordinance apply to the range. “The county doesn’t have the equipment to enforce those sound regulations... Y ou’re building into the ordinance a requirement you can’t even enforce,” Luke told the supervisors. As an alternative, he supported inclusion of decibel level limits measured at the lot line.
Addressing Luke’s arguments, the zoning administrator recalled that the NRA range expert had told the commission that a range could be designed to prevent the escape of bullets but had stopped short of guarantee
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