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If you make it a use by right, you’re cutting off the opportunity for a public input,” said Washington attorney David Konick. “If you make it a use by right, all the Board of Supervisors has to do is waltz into the Zoning Office and get a permit.”
A site selection for the animal shelter is expected to be made by the Board-by the end of 1985. Once v the decision has been made, the Board will caft for discussion of that. decision in a public meeting. The Board does not anticipate that a public hearing will be held before its next regular meeting, on January 6th.
The Board is currently being sued by the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, Inc. for failing to comply with Virginia law requiring each county to make suitable arrangements for establishment or use of an animal shelter. County residents Pat Saltonstall and Teddie Hannon are co-petitioners in the suit.
Mr. Konick said that construction of an animal shelter at the Scrabble site would violate Objective 7C of the 1980 Rappahannock County Comprehensive Plan. That objective states that public facilities should be located near the county’s villages to “prevent scattered independent developments from occuring in low density areas. ”
Planning Commission chairman Newbill Miller replied, “I don’t think a settled area, a populated area, is more suitable than a rural area for a shelter. I don’t see where it is in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan.”
Commission member Werner Krebser agreed, saying “Animal shelters ought to be out in an agri
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