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In an otherwise routine meeting of the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals last Wednesday, zoning administrator John McCarthy alerted the BZA to a probable challenge of a special use permit.
At issue is a permit issued to Sally Sharp in 1984 for temporary housing of agricultural workers. “The neighbors (Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gorfein) allege that there have been violations,” Mr. McCarthy told the BZA last week.
According to the zoning administrator, the permit initially approved by the BZA specifies that “workers housed in the facility be not more than 10 in number, and may not include their families, on a 225-acre farm,” and that “these workers be employed on land owned or rented by the Sharps, only.”
Mountain Green, the Sharps’ orchard outside the town of Washington in Harris Hollow, is “no longer a 225-acre farm,” said Mr. McCarthy, noting that at least two family subdivisions have reduced the acreage set out in the special use permit.
In addition, in a letter to the Sharps’ attorney, Douglas Baumgardner, the zoning administrator noted that the sewage disposal system construction permit issed by the Health Department “clearly shows that the approval is for three months only.” He acknowledged, however, that there is no 90-day limit on occupancy by migrant farm workers in the temporary housing delineated “explicitly or implicitly” by the permit or in the minutes of the BZA’s July 25 meeting. “I am awaiting a transcription of the full record. . .and will review same to determine whether or not the time condition of 90 day occupancy was stated, as has been alleged by the Gorfeins. . .”
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