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By MICHELE MAY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock’s board of zoning appeals last Wednesday rejected applications from Patricia Saltonstall for special use permits to build duplex housing for her Points of View Farm workers, finding that her plans weren’t in keeping with the “predominant character of the neighborhood.”
Board chairman Lee Bird had problems in casting the negative vote which he felt the language of the zoning ordinance demanded. “The intent of the ordinance is to have one single family dwelling per 25 acre tract, but I don’t think these units would affect the character of the neighborhood. They are well screened by the woods and well spread out,” he said.
Saltonstall had proposed building two duplex units, one on “Lot G”, which is 26.88 acres and one of “Lot F” which is 27.6 acres. Both lots on the Lingren-Whaley tract face on Route 729 between Flint Hill and Ben Venue.
Saltonstall described the houses as “grand-cottages”, the sort of separate quarters in which one can live comfortably with one’s in-laws under the same roof.
“I could say they’re related and do it that way, but I won’t,” she added, saying “as single family buildings, they’re going up anyway. We will build on the lot.”
Saltonstall said she hoped to house all her workers relatively close together so they wouldn’t be too isolated in the woods and so she could keep as much of the rest of her property as possible for farmland or in a conservation state. “We hoped to avoid building on the
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