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Konick continued that Article 11 of the ordinance prohibits any sign not specifically permitted. The ordinance allows by right signs of not more than 20 square feet of aggregate area advertising local business, he said. In addition, he noted, the ordinance lists 12 types of permitted signs. “Is that in addition to the signs of 20 feet in aggregate area? Or is it 20 feet aggregate area AND only those 12 types?” he asked.
“That’s a good question,” BZA member Sharon Luke replied. The Washington attorney and former substitute zoning administrator recalled that when George Davis was Rappahannock’s commonwealth’s attorney, he interpreted the ordinance as allowing signs less than 20 square feet by right.
Konick said that the county planning commissioners, currently at work on revision and review of local zoning ordinances, have interpreted sign regulations as prohibiting signs larger than 20 square feet. The
Commission has considered existing signs with larger areas as non-conforming uses, he said.
Chairman Bird disagreed, with that interpretation of the ordinance maintaining that signs less than 20 feet in area are allowed by right and larger signs by special use permit as long as they advertise a business located in Rappahannock County. “But I’m not final on that interpretation,” Bird said, adding that the sign ordinance “wasn’t drafted with great skill.”
“There are inconsistencies in the drafting,” Luke agreed. “It does leave some question as to what it
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