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Karol Wagner was back before the Board of Zoning Appeals last Wednesday, seeking a special use permit for a two-bedroom bed-andbreakfast business in the former Davis property overlooking the Town of Washington. And with the dispute on road access resolved, the board members voted unanimously to issue the permit.
Last month, adjoining landowner Dean Morehouse opposed Mrs. Wagner’s application; maintaining that the private road providing access to the bed-and-breakfast inn encroached on his property. Survey pins that would have resolved the issue were missing; Mr. Morehouse balked at paying for a new survey and Mrs. Wagner insisted that her survey showed the roadbed entirely on her land.
Last week, Mrs. Wagner said Mr. Morehouse would share the cost of placing the missing pins and that the parties had agreed to trade land if the resurvey showed encroachment. Surveyor Wayne Niskanon put in the pins at the comers common to the Wagner and Morehouse properties. “It appears there is not an encroachment,” Mrs. Wagner told the BZA.
In a letter, the surveyor noted that four feet of fill dirt may be on the Morehouse land but added this could be removed with a shovel and wheelbarrow in a few hours. Then “some grass seed would restore the area to its pre-construction condition.”
.Zoning administrator John McCarthy, who had inspected the replaced pins, affirmed there
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