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only spot when1 the driller could position his rig on the lot, which measures just 90 feet wide and 150 feet deep. "I don't know who else to go to. I’m in an uncomfortable position,” Mr. Hur said. “1 want to buy the lot, and Mr. Thorne (the current owner) wants to sell, but if I can’t use the pollution pack, 1 don’t think I’m going to buy it.”
He again predicted that if the variance isn’t issued, the neighboring landowner will offer Tracy Thorne a “very low price” and then merge Lot #3 with his Lot #2, now also unbuildable, and construct a house which meets setback distances using the already approved septic field and existing well, regardless of the below standard distance between the two.
“Only because I’ve applied for a variance do you people have any say on conditions,” Mr. Hur reminded the BZA members.
Maintaining that the pollution pack proposed by Mr. Hur will not afford protection against contamination from septic field seepage. Butch Zindel asked what assurance the Health Department will give regarding the effectiveness of the device.
On private wells, “the Health Department is not in the business of reassuring,” replied Mr. Hur.
"Yes, they are,” countered Mr. Kramer. “You can’t get a permit to put a septic field in (i5 feet from a well. They won’t do it!” However, he added that if the Health Department will accept the pollution pack as a solution to the distance problem, “that’s fine with me.”
Co. agent said lot was buiidable
Mr. Thorne told the BZA that before purchasing the Rappahannock Lakes lot, he walked the property with then-zoning administrator Emil Smet. “He measured the lot, and he told me I could have a building permit issued that day . . . Based on your county representative’s word, I paid $10,000 for that lot . . . Two years after the fact, I think I have a well on it, I think I have a septic field on it, and I put it up for sale.”
Only then, Mr. Thorne said, did he learn that under new zoning regulations, he would need variances to both side yard and front yard setback distances in order to build. “Mr. Hur has
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