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Inconsistency is there certainly and it may not make sense but we have to do the very best we can with what we have before us,” concluded chairman Lee Bird as the Rappahannock board of zoning appeals struggled to interpret sign regulations in the county’s zoning ordinance.
Arthur Smith was before the BZA last Friday with a special use permit application for a sign advertising the new Sperryville indoor antique and flea market.
“It’s important for me to have a sign out on the road (Route 211). Otherwise I’d have to dose my doors. No one would ever find me!” Smith told the BZA.
The four foot by eight foot sign on the highway directs potential customers to the flea market located in the old apple cold storage building that formerly housed the Rappahannock Farmers’ Cooperative. A.Y. Stokes, C.E. Johnson and Clifton Miller, previous owners of the property, held a permit for a sign the same size and in the same location advertising the cold storage, ® according to Smith. The three men gave permission to use the sign on Route 211 “so I substituted my sign,” Smith added.
“It’s the same size as the one that was there. Actually, it looks better,” interjected BZA member James Swindler, the board’s representative from the Sperryville area. “The other one was peeling. It was not kept up too well.”
Zoning administrator David Konick pointed out that zoning ordinance regulations on signs must be met if use is transferred.
“This sign has been there since 1936 or ’38,” Swindler noted.
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