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tends that the Sharps’ application shows the special use permit was issued for a farm with specifically 225 acres. Since the permit was granted, the Sharps have separated several parcels in family transfers, including a 30 acre piece with the migrant workers’ housing. The 210 acre residue is clearly not the property for which the permit was issued, Mr. McCarthy maintains. He has asked the BZA to revoke the special use permit.
Henry and Meredith Gorfein, the neighboring landowners, echo that request. Their attorney, Frank Reynolds, noted at Wednesday’s BZA meeting that the transcript of the hearing on the issuance of the permit supports the contention that the farm size is a factor. He quoted a statement BZA member James Swindler made at that meeting: “We’re dealing with a 225 acre farm.” “That’s the reason no other conditions were attached,” Mr. Reynolds said, pointing out that 30 acres with the migrant housing has been subdivided, separated from the rest of the farm, and could now be sold separately, “with no farm, no orchards.”
Attorney Douglas Baumgardner, representing the Sharps, argues that the family subdivisions which have been approved since the permit was issued are all lawful subdivisions and do not negate the permit. Since no condition prohibiting subdivisions was attached to the permit, the Sharps’ family subdivisions have no bearing on its validity, he maintains.
The Gorfeins have also alleged that more than 10 workers have been housed in the migrant worker camp. They maintain that women have been living there, in violation
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