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Wrong but already accomplished
“I think it’s absolutely wrong <to place a library in an agricultural zone,” maintained commissioner Werner Krebser. But he described the special exception application as “water over the dam,” since the Board of Supervisors has already signaled its approval by adding libraries as a permitted use in agricultural zones.
To the argument that post offices are permitted there so why not libraries, Dr. Krebser said it would have been better from a land-use planning standpoint to rezone the post office lots. “Government buildings and quasi-government buildings don’t belong in agricultural zones; they belong in town.”
He added that the Library Board “worked in a vacuum” trying to find a location for a new building. “They never discussed anything with me about a piece of ground,” said Dr. Krebser, who owns considerable property in the Town of Washington. “There were lots of possibilities. I’m sure of it. . .There’s a saying that you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, but I think you ought to be looking at this gift horse a little bit,” he cautioned, suggesting that approval for the division of the two acres to be donated for the library should be couched in terms which preclude use as a building lot should construction fail to begin in two years.
“This division couldn’t even happen if the land weres going to be used for a dwelling unit. There is some ambiguity [in the transaction as currently proposed],” agreed Mr. McCarthy.
Mr. Irwin maintained that locating the library on this agriculturallyzoned property so far from the center of the county’s designated area
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