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By LOU HATTER Rappahannock News Staff Writer Faced with its first request for a subdiviI sion, the Town of Washington’s Planning Com1 mission took the plan under advisement at its meeting on May 24 and delayed a decision until * June 8. (Under state law, the planning commission *; has only an advisory role in subdivision approI vals. It is, as town attorney Frank Reynolds ex; plained, a ministerial rather than a legislative l function. If the application meets the requirev ments of the ordinance, the governing body has ; no choice but to approve it. The town council will *; issue the approval or denial, but the planning - commission must recommend for or against the ' request. If the subdivision is denied, specific rea' sons must be given as well as remedies for the ; stated problems, Mr. Reynolds added.) The Rev. Richard Scott asked the commissioners for a recommendation on his plan to subdivide a 2.3 acre parcel on Piedmont Ave. into three lots. One, with the existing house, is a rectangle on Piedmont Ave. The two proposed additional lots will be behind it, each with a “pipestem” of land fronting on Piedmont Ave. To questions from the commissioners about access to the two back lots, Rev. Scott explained
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