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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Alter listening to hours of testimony at Monday’s public hearing, the supervisors issued a special exception permit to Alex and Roseanne Sharp for an expansion of their migrant workers’ camp in Harris Hollow.
But the conditions and restrictions added by the board fell far short of the limits sought by neighboring landowners, Meredith and Henry Gorfein.
The Sharps, who farm about 400 acres of orchards, most rented, also own and operate the apple packing house in Sperryville. “We’re probably the second largest employer of local people in the county,” Mr. Sharp said, adding that he employs up to 40 men and women at the packing house and orchards in the fall.
Mr. Sharp acknowledged that terms of an earlier special use permit for the migrant worker camp in Harris Hollow had been violated, by (1) housing more than 10 laborers and (2) using the facility beyond the harvest season to lodge pruning crews.
In seeking an expansion to provide the housing necessary for a dependable labor supply, Mr. Sharp noted that he’d first asked for a year-round camp with 16 laborers there during harvest season and a maximum of 10 for the remaining nine months of the year. But in response to the Planning Commission’s opposition to a year-round migrant camp, the permit application had been amended to 10 months with the camp to close for two months immediately after harvest season and no
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