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ness has going for it.”
And this proposed sign is off-site, he emphasized. “If you actually had a business there, it would be a different matter," he told Mrs. O'Brien.
Not only is the sign off-site, but it’s far removed from the business in question, added Zoning Administrator John McCarthy. He maintained that Mrs. O’Brien would be better advised to ask for a sign at Massies Comer where motorists would turn off the highway to get to the restaurant.
But motorists need time to consider whether they want to stop for a meal, Mrs. O’Brien contended, saying the three miles between where she proposes to erect the sign and the turn at Massies Comer allows that opportunity.
James Swindler, the Board of Zoning Appeals’ delegate to the Planning Commission, recalled that a permit for an off-site sign on Route 522 had been issued to Oasis Winery, a business not even located within Rappahannock County.
Mrs. O’Brien’s restaurant is a Rappahannock County business, he
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