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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The contestants will go another round next month in the fight over a permit for a migrant workers’camp.
Last Wednesday, the Board of Zoning Appeals agreed to hear evidence on November 5 as to whether a special use permit issued to Sally Sharp for migrant farm workers’ housing should be revoked.
Neighbors allege that conditions attached to the permit have been violated and zoning administrator John McCarthy maintains that family subdivisions have rendered it invalid. The Sharps, who run a family agricultural enterprise including what is probably Rappahannock’s largest orchard venture, reject both contentions.
Special Use Permit #255 has a file thick with letters of complaint and rebuttal from attorneys. The same charges and replies were offered verbally at an earlier BZA hearing. They were aired again on Wednesday and promise to be repeated at least once more, maybe twice and possibly a third time.
According to notes on the file jacket - the only written record of the permit besides the minutes of the July, 1984, public hearing - Mrs. Sharp was authorized to house 10 temporary agricultural workers employed on land owned or rented by the Sharps. The application for “migrant farm worker temporary housing” gives 225 acre Mountain Green Farm as the property for which the special use permit was sought. On the application for construction of a sewage disposal system, in the blank for volume and description of commercial wastewater, “3 month” is written. These records figure prominently in the permit controversy.
The zoning administrator con
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