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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“Hallelujah!” Jon Hur proclaimed last Friday as he walked away from the special meeting of the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals with the variance necessary to build a house on the lot he wants to buy in Rappahannock Lakes subdivision.
It had been a long five months for the Maryland resident, who had earlier told the BZA that he hoped a lakeside cottage would be more of a lure for his wife to spend weekends in Rappahannock than the couple’s other weekend home in Flint Hill.
First the Planning Commission recommended denial of his application for variances. Then the Board of Zoning Appeals likewise turned him down—but for different reasons—and requested that the Board of Supervisors enact a zoning ordinance amendment to deal with the problems posed by the tiny lots in the 70-lot development which predates Rappahannock’s land use regulations.
But the supervisors concluded that a general amendment would be bad zoning practice and against the county’s best interests, so they returned the matter to the
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