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If the school board member from Wakefield District had attended meetings of the planning commission, board of supervisors and board of zoning appeals over the past five years, he would have seen special use permits granted for garages, beauty salons, inspection stations, antique shops and furniture and cabinet making businesses. He would have seen local governing bodies grant approvals to pave the way for restoring an old mill into a restaurant and shops, remodeling a ski lodge into an adult group home and expanding the Rappahannock Farmers Cooperative. Recently, at the request of a local business and over the opposition of neighboring landowners, the supervisors enacted a zoning ordinance amendent to allow rifle ranges on agriculturally zoned land. By permit, Washington’s town council has approved new restaurants, an apartment building, professional offices and craft and gift shops.
In recent years, we’ve seen only two proposals for commercial development rejected: the first for a faddish Alpine slide at the old ski area and the second for a tannery on the Thornton River in Sperryville. Both were ill conceived and both presented serious problems—the tannery with water quality and the slide with road adequacy and dust control and with the potential for establishing a precedent for future intensive development at the site.
Rappahannock’s local government has also taken important steps toward protecting and encouraging the county’s biggest existing industry: agriculture.
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