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In July, weather watcher Dennis Wingfield reported that the county _ was more than 5V2 inches below normal rainfall for the past three months. The Board of Supervisors passed a resolution requesting that the county be declared a disaster area by Gov. Gerald Baliles.
August and September brought more of the same, and hay arrived, donated by farmers in Pennsylvania to help hard-pressed cattle farmers in the county.
With the fall came a normal, seasonal drop in rainfall, and although more rain has fallen late in the year, the groundwater situation is still serious. Forecasters predict that it will take significant amounts of precipitation to make up for the groundwater shortfall which has resulted from the past two dry summers.
. 4) The Town of Washington, after laborious work by its Planning Commission, completed work on the town’s first comprehensive plan, as well as an extensive overhaul of the zoning regulations, which had been in effect since 1970.
The county, for its part, also struggled toward adopting a new zoning ordinance, which had been in various stages of planning for nearly eight years. Public hearings held by the Planning Commission and Town Council to consider input from residents produced sharp disagreements with the plans. At issue was the zoning of some properties long in commercial use, which had been included in residentially zoned areas, as well as the limited amount of space given to commercial zoning in the center of the town.
Meanwhile, the supervisors announced their intention of adopting the new zoning ordinance at the July meeting, then reconsidered.
The Town Council, over the vocal objections of a number of residents, adopted the comprehensive plan and
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