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A Favor To Applicants

“If I hadn't taken it to the Planning Commission within those three days, the supervisors couldn’t have acted today,” maintained the zoning administrator. “They would have had to refer it back to the Planning Commission for a recommendation and it would have taken another month. I knew warm weather was coming and I figured you wanted to get started. I thought I was doing you a favor,” Konick told Mrs. Stuart and the Ruritans.

Returning to Mrs. Paul’s complaint regarding lights shining through her father’s bedroom window. Supervisor Nelson Lane suggested she work with the Ruritans to provide screening between the house and rightof-way. He volunteered to donate pine trees large enough to provide that screen.

“That’s community spirit!” Mrs. Stuart interjected.

“As long as they shade his bedroom window, I have no objection," added Mrs. Paul.

Reading the oridinance section that provides for the supervisors to grant a special exception in the case of hardship or exceptional topography of the lot in question as long as the intent of the ordinance is not violated, Luke advised “you as the governing body have to decide if this case falls within that provisions.”

Violates Ordinance

As presented to the Planning Commission, Mrs. Stuart’s proposal was a violation of the subdivision ordinance “’and it still is right now,” said Supervisor

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