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use permit for a commercial venture would effectively change the zoning on the property. “I don’t see how (the BZA members) decided they have the right to grant this permit.”
While the zoning ordinance doesn’t specifically allow for bed and breakfast ventures, the BZA has likened that use to a tourist home and fit B&Bs under that category, Mr. Reynolds said. Now the BZA wants to “push (the retreat house) into a tourist home” and “stretch (the conservation district) to allow a commercial venture,” the attorney maintained. “I don’t think that’s the intent of the ordinance.”
“The supervisors think the intent (of the zoning ordinance) is to protect the conservation district from commercial activity or severely limit commercial activity in such districts,” said Mr. Miller, asking the lawyer to write a resolution expressing
those sentiments and bring it back to the board for adoption. “I’m not one to believe a whole lot in petitions but that’s a real broad section of people, a real broad section,” he noted, in reference to the signatures presented by A. Y. Stokes.
When Mr. Reynolds returned, the board voted unanimously to adopt the resolution stating that the intent of the 1973 zoning ordinance and its later amendments was to protect areas within a conservation zone, “and which are not zoned for commercial uses, from commercial activity and commercial uses.” Supervisor Lane was authorized to deliver both the resolution and the petitions to the BZA at its meeting the following morning. I
— Daphne Hutchinson
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