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have been remiss in not attaching more conditions ... If the size of the parcel is that important, it should have been made a condition (with future subdivisions specified as a violation of the permit), Sharon Luke contended. “We didn’t make it a condition. Maybe we should have, but we didn’t. The same with the access . . . We had a certain lack of foresight about future possibilities for changes . . . But it’s not fair to the permit holder to go back now and say everything that was said at that hearing was a condition.”
The BZA specified only three conditions “and they’re the only ones we can legally enforce,” Mrs. Luke maintained. Her fellow board members agreed that they limited the migrant camp to no more than 10 temporary, seasonal workers, with no families, who are to be employed on land owned or rented by the Sharps.
Objections explained
“If we had known in 1984 that we were talking about a labor camp on a 30-acre parcel, we would have been all over the place!” Mrs. Gorfein responded to the BZA’s decision that the family subdivisions of Mountain Green Farm did not affect the permit’s validity. “Our nearest neighbor in 1984 was a 225-acre family farm with orchards . . . Our nearest neighbor now is a labor camp on a 30-acre parcel, a commercial labor camp, with no orchard . . . But we could live with a migrant labor camp on 30 acres next door if there were some conditions attached.”
Explaining their description of the facility as a commercial camp, her husband noted that the workers housed at the camp are used in orchards at the other end of the county, not in Harris Hollow.
There is no housing available in the orchards he rents in Woodville and Sperryville, Alex Sharp countered. As to the Gorfeins’ complaints that the 30-acre parcel with the camp has no orchard, he said the old orchard there was unproductive and so was pushed down. But long range plans call for the land to be replanted in apple trees. “We built (the migrant housing) there because that’s where the orchards wifi.
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