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With a year-round camp, the Sharps will be “importing labor that can do nothing but take jobs away from local people,” the attorney continued. “I don’t agree that you can’t get people to work in this county. I don’t agree at all,” he said, adding that substandard wages brought on the scarcity of local labor for farms and orchards.
Ticking off the different corporations formed by the Sharp family, he asked who actually is renting the 400 acres of orchards which Alex and Roseanne manage. “Where is the liability? Who will the county look to ... Who else is involved in this?” He maintained that the camp could be transferred “to a corporate management company with no ties to Rappahannock County that would pay people the least amount of money it could and take as much as it could, skimming the orchards. ”
According to Mr. Reynolds, migrant workers in Rappahannock have violated game laws and discharged firearms. “There have been problems with stealing,” he charged.
Is a camp “more important than the people who are living in Harris Hollow?” he asked, describing the character of the neighborhood as “low density, large lot residential.”
In closing, he noted that the ordinance requires that an application for a special exception permit be complete before it can be considered. Without showing access or parking, the Sharps’ application is deficient, Mr. Reynolds concluded.
“Doesn’t the property actually front on Route 622?” asked Supervisor Newbill Miller.
“It does now,” Mr. Reynolds answered.
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