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understand our position about the ordinance.”
Miss Ruby Jenkins requested a Certificate of Appropriateness for two lantern-style lamp fixtures to be placed on each side of the door in the middle of her First Washington Museum on South Main Street. Her sister, Miss Mary Jenkins, appeared before the board with one of the lamps, as well as photos showing the doorway.
“They will match the lamps on our house across the street,” Miss Jenkins said.
“They’re no problem,” Mrs. - Miller said. “It will look nice, they will add to the look of the building. They’ll look very nice for Christmas.”
Miss Jenkins’ application was approved unanimously.
Peter Skowronski appeared to request approval for the screening of a satellite dish antenna he plans to erect behind his house on Blue Ridge Avenue. He said that he originally planned to put it behind his tool shed, “but the leaves fell off the trees and I knew I was in trouble.”
The town’s zoning ordinance allows satellite dish antennas by right, but there is a requirement that they be “reasonably screened from public view.”
Mr. Skowronski said that he decided to move the dish to the corner of his garden, where it could not be seen from Blue Ridge Avenue.
“We’re not concerned about things you can’t see from the street,” Mrs. Willis said.
“You can see it from Piedmont Avenue,” Mr. Skowronski observed.
“You can see almost everything in town if you try hard enough,” Mr. Thomasson interjected. “My interpretation is that if you walk by or drive by ... I don’t think we even need to approve this ... If you can’t see it from the street, it’s not our purview.”
“The reason he came,” Mrs. Willis said, “is that if you really tried to look, if you knew it was there ...”
“That’s a precedent we don’t want to address,” Mr. Thomasson replied. “Public means (reading from the ordinance) ‘subject to public view from a public street, way, cr place’.”
“This is an instance when you really didn’t need to come,” he added.
Mr. Skowronski said that Zoning Administrator John McCarthy and Frank Reynolds, the town’s attorney, advised him to come for the pprmit.
“We won’t really know whether you can see it until it’s up,” Mrs. Miller observed, moving that the certificate be granted.
Mrs. Willis concurred. Mr. Thomasson abstained, maintaining that the approval was unnecessary, and the approval was granted.
The ARB did not set a date for its next meeting.
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