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Commissioner Werner Krebser told Mr. Hur. “The neighbors think it would be detrimental and i certainly think it might be. We'd begetting an awful precedent."

"There does come a time when we have an unbuildable lot. I'm not saying this one is. but it comes prettty close to it. " said Commissioner John Clark. "I'm afraid you're just asking for variances on tix> many setbacks. "

Mr. Hur volunteered to take off porches, which would enable him. to come closer to meeting the setbacks, but Commissioners Krebser and David Fannon held that it's up to the BZA to consider alterations in the application. McCarthy recommends approval

With the recommendation for denial. the majority split with the zoning administrator. "I think by the standards of the county's ordinance, this variance needs to be granted." Mr McCarthy maintained. "We created that lot (by the county's jxjrmitting the subdivision to be recorded i.

Kach of the three successive owners of the lot purchased it "with the reasonable expectation they could build a house . . . Each owner bought the prior owner's assumption that a house could be built there. I don’t know how or why you divest that right." None ever owned an adjacent lot that could have been merged with Rappahannock Lakes Lot o so that setback regulations could be satisfied, he noted. Therefore. a hardship exists. Mr. McCarthv maintained.

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