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"They say that neither rain, nor anow, nor dark of night will stay the postman from his appointed rounds... We could say that neither snow, nor snow, nor snow keeps us from our appointed duties,” joked chairman Lee Bird as a quorum of the Board of Zoning Appeals showed up for last Wednesday’s meeting despite the two feet of snow that had closed offices, businesses, schools and roads from the Potomac River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The attire was high boots, waterproof leggingB, stocking caps and mufflers; only Mr. Bird was in his traditional suit and tie. So the first order of business was to shake the snow from gloves and pant legs and discard the layers of winter wraps.
Then, giving painstaking attention to detail and reading lengthy sections from the new zoning ordinance aloud, the BZA members issued the first special use permit under the county’s revised land use regulations, approving Claudia McCue’s application for a metal workshop.
Ms. McCue will operate her workshop in the Wood Packing House in Flint Hill, property that is zoned village commercial. The blacksmith explained that shell be doing both commissioned work and sculpture to be sold through galleries.
Addressing fire safety concerns, she told the BZA that the cast iron fire pot for her forge sits on a brick base over a quarter inch steel plate. The floor in the shop is cement and wood walls will be replaced by masonry construction near the forge and the double chimney for the forge and wood stove, according to Ms. McCue.
"She’s been working closely with the building inspector who has arranged for a fire marshal’s certification of the structure,” noted Zoning Administrator John McCarthy.
The forge’s fire pot measures just 10 inches by 12 inches, the blacksmith said. "It’s a very small fire pot. When you work the fire, you maintain it small... You feed coal slowly into the fire. It turns into coke, which makes a very hot fire.” But this hot fire
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