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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
“This type of‘clustered’ development is just the sort of activity that the ordinance is intended to foster, keeping open space free from development while allowing the landowner to enjoy development rights,” concluded Zoning Administrator John McCarthy of J. J. Dwyer’s application to build three rental units within 20-25 feet of each other in a screened comer of his Black Rock Farm between Massie’s Comer and Flint Hill.
The proximity of the houses “effectively precludes subdivision of the property,” said Mr. Dwyer, who assured the commissioners at last month’s meeting that he has no plans to subdivide any of his 775 contiguous acres and offered to place deed restrictions on the land as proof of his intentions.
As he and the zoning administrator explained the proposal, a sufficient number of Mr. Dwyer’s contiguous parcels would be merged to give a density of one dwelling unit per 25 acres for the three additional units, as specified by the zoning ordinance for agricultural and conservation zones, and then a special exception permit for more than one dwelling unit per lot could be issued.
The thfree rental units would be grouped on less than an acre and the balance of 74 acres would be in permanent open space, stripped of development potential by the at-tainment of the density limit.
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