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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The* county’s Board of Zoning Appeals last _w^ek_ gave Jon Hur the variance he needs to build a house, nut only if the Health Department reaffirms approval for the septic field and private well on the quarter-acre waterfront lot in Rappahannock Lakes. And questioning whether a percolation test had been conducted by the Health Department’s sanitarian when the system was approved in 1977, the BZA asked for such a test to determine the soil’s suitability for waste disposal.
Created in the late 1950s before the county adopted land use ordinances, Rappahannock Lakes is a subdivision of small, irregularly-shaped parcels served by private streets, individual septic fields, and a failing publicwater system supplemented by private wells. Of the development’s 70-odd lots, about 30 are yet to be built on. Most, like the lot Mr. Hur intends to buy, have problems meeting zoning regulations on building setbacks, but onlyfive of these smaller lots are not under the same ownership as adjoining, mergable lots.
Mr. Hur’s lot is 90 feet wide, making it impossible to comply with building setbacks of 50 feet on either side. The lot is 150 feet deep but 50 feet is already taken up by the Health Department’s required setback from an existing septic field to the lake. In addition, a house must be 20 feet from that field, under Health Department regulations, and 75 feet from the front property line, under the county’s zoning regulations. The combination of setbacks leaves less than 10 feet for any building.
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