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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Rappahannock Board of Zoning Appeals during its meeting on Wednesday, January 23 upheld a decision made by Zoning Administrator David Konick that a landowner did not need a special use permit in order to lease his land to a hunt club. Konick's decision was appealed to the BZA by Richard H. Suib and other landowners in the area where land is leased to a hunt club.
The BZA heard some arguments in the case involving Gordon E. Smith and the Trophy Hunt Club at its December meeting. Smith is a founder of the hunt club, and he leases his land in Bean Hollow off of Route 629 to the club. The basis of the appeal was that the use of land by a hunt club constituted a commercial use which would require a special use permit. The case was continued for a month to give the parties involved a chance to reach an agreement, but the agreement could not be finalized.
Suib and the other appellants were represented last week by Frank Reynolds. Reynolds told the Board that his clients were disappointed that an agreement could not be reached, and that they were upset by the misunderstanding of their motives by persons at the December meeting. “Their intent all along has been merely to protect themselves, their children, their families, their property, and I guess you could say the peace and tranquility or quiet enjoyment of their property,” Reynolds said. “It has never been their intent to prohibit safe hunting in the county of Rappahannock.”
Reasonable conditions for the protection of these interests were what Reynolds said his clients wanted. Suib outlined what these conditions would be. Suib said that he and the other property owners would want a shelter built of large packing crates that is located at the end of the private access road to be moved further away from two residences in the area.
The other requests that Suib made were that there be a buffer zone of 100 yards from other landowners’ boundaries where no hunting would take place, no hunting on Sunday, that the hunters not fire downhill and that the hunters not pursue animals on the other owners’ properties. “We don’t want to be adversaries with Mr. Smith since we both own property up there we’re going to see each other from time to time, and there is no sense in being adversaries,” said Suib. “We just want our lives and property protected.”
James C. Orr, another appellant,
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