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“An awful lot of folks are coming out from the cities in their pickup trucks, just looking for targets of opportunity,” said Supervisor Ellis Bingham. “That has to be curtailed.”
If something isn’t done now to stop hunting abuses, more stringent measures — such as gun control laws — may be demanded later by an outraged public, noted Supervi-4 sor Nelson Lane. While conceding that the ordinance under consideration was neither a total nor a perfect answer, he added, “I’d rather give the wardens a tool [to combat road hunting], even if it’s an imperfect one.”
In other action at the board’s monthly evening session for public hearings, the supervisors:
• tabled action on a special excep-. tion permit from Rob Brown for multi-family housing in Sperryville’s flood plain zone. According to Piedmont District Supervisor Charles Estes, Mr. Brown has requested his application be withdrawn. (In August, the Board of Zoning Appeals denied Mr. Brown’s special use permit for a six-unit apartment on a one-third acre lot in the village.)
• approved the abandonment of a subdivision road in Chester Gap. The road was dedicated as part of a small-lot subdivision of 24 parcels recorded prior to the adoption of the county’s land use laws. None of the lots, which are about one-third acre in size, have been built on or sold.
Newbill Miller, contract purchaser for the entire subdivision, proposes to redraw boundary lines to make five lots, averatrinc 1.3
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