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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Deciding they needed more time for study, the Rappahannock Planning Commissioners have asked the Board of Supervisors to delay action on two proposed amendments to the county subdivision ordinance scheduled for public hearing at the board’s October 6 meeting.
At the commission’s public hearing last Wednesday, attorney David Konick called the amendments “arbitrary and capricious,” described the stated reasons for adoption as “utter nonsense,” and charged that one of the proposed amendments encourages government by the buddy system.
The two subdivision ordinance amendments considered by the commissioners would:
• Authorize the supervisors to grant exceptions to the county’s subdivision ordinance in “unusual situations” or when strict adherence would create hardship or substantial injustice.
• Repeal the ordinance’s existing provision for appeal of subdivision approval to the Circuit Court.
The first amendment will bring Rappahannock’s subdivision ordinance into conformity with changes in enabling legislation made by the General Assembly last year, according to Zoning Administrator John McCarthy. The second comes in response to a judicial opinion, he said, adding that Judge Shore Robertson has ruled there is no basis in existing legislation for the right of appeal conferred on all landowners by Rappahannock’s subdivision ordinance. According to Mr. McCarthy, the judge held that neighboring landowners substantially aggrieved or impacted by approval of a subdivi
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