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approximately six acres each. “I don’t think it should have been done administratively. ”
Mr. Smet is an agent of the supervisors, Dr. Krebser responded. “The supervisors will have to reverse this.”
“I think it’s a little bit more complicated once the lots are recorded,” Commissioner Miller said. As far as Mr. Morgan’s request for similar administrative authorization for subdivision of his 24 acres into four lots, “he must get subdivision approval under the ordinance,” Mr. Miller added.
In trying to interpret Rappahannock’s subdivision regulations, Mr. Smet explained, “advice was sought from two attorneys, one of them the commonwealth’s attorney.” And according to the zoning administrator, both said that Mr. Parrish’s and Mr. Morgan’s applications could be approved administratively, since the tracts the two men owned were tracts of record as of 1973.
Mr. Miller agreed that the Smith farm, from which both tracts originally came, had been worked as one parcel but had actually been put together with several separate pieces of property. “I’m not finding fault. I just want to see us work this through to a solution and determine how it’s going to be done,” he said, adding that past practices disallowed administrative approval for subdivisions when the parcel in question was contiguous to an already subdivided parcel.
“But maybe state law supercedes our subdivision ordinance in that a parcel purchased separately can be sold separately,” he conceded.
By consensus, the planning commissioners agreed that Mr. Morgan must submit a subdivision application through normal channels for the prerequisite rezoning since his property adjoins an existing subdivision. (However, in a resolution unani
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