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After hearing that the current zoning ordinance neither provides for a public shelter in any zoning district nor allows for an exception, Mr. Lewis still insisted that the supervisors would be “cutting their noses off to spite their face” if they changed the zoning laws for the entire county just to put a shelter at Scrabble.
Commissioner Werner Krebser noted that the county has already spent $4,000 on site improvements at Scrabble at a time of increasingly tight budgetary constraints.
“What has that got to do with a land use planning decision?” asked Mr. Lewis.
“There was no public hearing before the supervisors spent that $4,000 of my money,” added Robert Poole. “Now you’re using that as an argument to go ahead!”
“The $4,000 is not the issue that’s weighing on me,” Mr. Miller assured the Scrabble landowners.
Mr. Gilkey noted that an alternative site has been considered. “But we’d have to put in a well, septic and electricity . . . The county already owns the Scrabble property. It has a well on it. It has septic.”
And the alternative site is just as close to residences as the Scrabble property, maybe even closer, interjected Supervisor J.R. Latham.
A.F. Cannon countered that the county also owns a better shelter location in the eight or nine acres it has in Amissville.
“That’s an old dump site. It has no water, no electricity,” Mr. Gilkey replied.
“There’s no electricity at Scrabble either,” argued Mr. Cannon. “Just a line running in front. And the septic tank’s done been busted in . . . You won’t take care of a dog pound any better than a landfill,” he insisted, adding that trash from the Scrabble dumpster blows onto his farm. The supervisors will neither erect a fence nor inspect the litter spread, Mr. Cannon charged. “I think you all are doing me a dirty deal down there!”
To another barrage of questions, dog warden Jack Bruce reported that he’d collected 22-24 dogs in April but only seven so far in May. “You just don’t know. There could be thre or four tomorrow ... I don’t know any more than you do (on how many strays to expect). I get the calls and I go.” Mr. Bruce noted that he keeps dogs for five days after pick-up. “Then I put them in the gas tank.”
Recalling a special informational meeting held last December, Patricia Saltonstall, officer with the Rappahannock County Humane Society, noted that Humane Society members had played “devil’s advocate” without eliciting “negative feedback” from neighbors of animal shelters in Madison, Culpeper and Fauquier counties. “The fears about this are more than they need be.”
Mr. Konick asked for a show of hands on the issue of allowing noncommercial animal kennels and shelters by right in an agricultural district. Two went up in favor and 15 against. As to the issue of allowing only non-commercial kennels by right, Mr. Konick said: “If you have a kennel with 10 or 15 dogs, what difference does it make if it’s operated as a private or commercial or government kennel, as far as the ef- ■ feet on adjoining landowners? It seems to me that the dogs bark just the same.”
“I realize we need a dog kennel,” said Charles Jackson. “But out of all the' schools we once had that the
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