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Applicants
get hearing
Despite no-shows, BZA
considers two permits
Rappahannock’s Board of Zoning Appeals was short of a quorum last Wednesday, but the scheduled public hearings on two special use permits proceeded as advertised.
“It’s unfair to penalize you because of' our problems,” Chairman Lee Bird told Ruth Ann and Richard Simmons, both of whom had taken off work to attend the meeting. “We can get the facts from you” and then act on the application later when the necessary three members are present for a vote, he added.
Mr. Simmons explained that he is seeking a special use permit to operate a small engine repair business in an existing accessory building on a half-acre lot on Route 628.
The one-story shop “about the size of a two-car garage” meets the ordinance standards for a cottage industry, which is a permitted use in an agricultural zone, and all neighboring landowners have been notified and have registered no objections, Zoning Administrator John McCarthy confirmed.
Mr. Simmons explained that he intends to repair “generators, alternators, starters, and such. Nothing is going to be torn down and stored there ... I’d like to 8tart part-time, working nights and Saturdays, and if I get enough business, I can stay up there all day. ”
“There doesn’t seem to be any problem with this,” said Chairman Bird, setting a continued meeting for Wednesday, June 29, when at least three BZA members are expected to be able to attend. “I can’t see any reason why you should be pres-ent. It seems very straightforward,” he assured Mr. and Mrs. Simmons.
The second applicant, Mary Beth Martin, told the BZA of her plans to operate a one-room bed-and-breakfast in an existing structure on a 12.45-acre parcel coned agricultural on the Foddetstadr Road. ■ ' -"•*" ; ''' ' "■
Mr. McCarthy noted that the septic drainfield and upgraded well meet Health Department standards.
‘We have your facts, and it all looks straightforward,” Mr. Bird said. “We’ll take it up at our meeting next Wednesday.”
“That was painless!” Mrs. Martin concluded.
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