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Zoning Office Hours
Both the zoning and the building office are now open for public business on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Emiel Smet is both the building official and the acting zoning administrator.
• Town Zoning Amendments
The Rappahannock planning commissioners, who have been acting jointly as the planning commission for the Town of Washington, recommended passage of three amendments to the Town’s zoning ordinance during their regular meeting on March 20.
The first of the three amendments, all proposed by town council, would abolish the joint planning commission and empower town council to create its own planning commission.
The second amendment would allow town council to create a fivemember board of zoning appeals.
The third amendment would allow no more than one dwelling unit or building to be situated on a lot unless the town council of Washington first granted a special use permit.
Also during the meeting, acting Zoning Administrator Emiel Smet presented an application for a special use permit from the Sperryville Assembley of God. Because of property limitations at the present site, Church representatives plan to build a Church on a 12.8 acre lot in Piedmont District on Route 612 off Route 211.
The planners forwarded a recommendation of approval to the BZA.
• Humane Society Meeting
Plans for Rappahannock’s temporary animal shelter will be aired at tonight’s (March 28) meeting of the Rappahannock Humane Society (RHS). The 7:30 p.m. event at the Court House will be the group’s first annual meeting, with election of a board of directors and a slate of officers.
RHS chairman Vince Hannon said that members of the Board of Supervisors had been asked to brief the membership on the progress of the new shelter to be built on Animal Warden Jack Bruce’s farm. Plans for the facility were approved last January by outgoing Virginia Animal Welfare Officer, Dr. L. E. Bowen, Jr.
As a special guest at tonight’s meeting, Culpeper resident Mimi Harrison will discuss her pet registry, which receives and places orphaned pets in caring homes.
“We know from the numerous calls we get that lots of Rappahannock people care about animals—especially when they are lost or abandoned, or hurt or being mistreated,” Hannon said. The role of the fledgling society in the care and well-being of Rappahannock’s animal residents will be on tonight’s agenda, he said, and he urged attendance by these interested people whose support is sorely needed by the nonprofit group.
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