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“I’m not opposed to agriculture . . .1 voted for land use,” Mr. Estes said, referring to the preferential assessment system under which qualifying farm land is taxed at its use value rather than its speculative value for development purposes.
If use of the housing is limited to nine months, orchardists will have to rely on local labor, Herbert Foster said. “You can’t get local labor. We tried and we almost lost two apple crops.” With the blanket time limit, the supervisors will be further penalizing embattled farmers who are already “having a hard enough time with the deer,” Mr. Foster concluded.
By consensus, with Mr. Estes opposed, the supervisors:
1) Dropped the nine months limitation.
2) Added the requirement for filing an affidavit with the zoning administrator every three months, reporting ages, names and citizenship status of migrant workers housed by permit at a labor camp.
3) Changed the consideration process from application to the BZA for a special permit to application to the Board of Supervisors for a special exception permit.
Then, with barely a pause for breath, Mr. Miller moved for adoption of the zoning ordinance and map.
“It’s like speaking before you go to the guillotine block when you know that the judges have already made up their minds,” said Robert Eastham, protesting the adoption. He charged that enactment itself would be “defective” since the Board of Supervisors had not held the required public hearing on the proposed ordinance. In addition, he said, the ordinance “contains provisions unknown to the people of this county,” provisions included since
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