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To the editor:
Many people are asking questions regarding the coverage of the several proceedings designed to adopt amendments to the 1970 Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Washington. They cannot tell from what has been reported why so many people seem outraged. After polling myself, some 40-plus homes (some weekend residents, not home; four or five houses vacant; four or five too elderly and several more said later they would like to have signed) out of a possible 78 homes, which includes the members of the town council and zoning board (about 12 included), the residents seem to be questioning the overall good of the zoning proceedings and the effects of such stringent government, at a rate of not less than two to one.
We want to know why the oldest existing businesses were downgraded? Why the ones which have served the needs of the people some for thirty or more years? Skippy Giles store downgraded to residential; Claybert Smoot’s Repair Shop; Black Kettle Motel and Restaurant (the former Lake Motel) and Wallace Critzer’s heavy equipment operation, all residential and yet the less essential tourist-type businesses, many of which fail to operate a full year are zoned to be the town business or “Mixed Use” (the decided name for retail operations). So, to most of the residents this gives reason to doubt the reasoning of the Council.
Zoning perhaps becomes a necessary thing but the simpler the better for the community. It is hard to understand why a hex sign is more important to the community than a loaf of bread. It is easy to understand why someone who has been providing bread to so many for so many years is upset when his whole
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