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and boarding houses and defines all as “Any building or portion thereof containing sleeping accommodations for not more than 12 persons who are not members of the family operating the establishment and wherein normally a charge is paid for such accommodations. The terms 'tourist home' and ‘boarding house’ do not include hotel or motel or other accommodations used for transient occupancy.”)
“People ask me if I’ve eaten at the one on 522 near Flint Hill, and 1 tell them it’s not supposed to be a restaurant,” I)r. Krebser continued. "We need to take care of this or we’ll have commercial establishments all up and down the highway," he said, getting nods of agreement from his fellow commissioners.
And the Wakefield District representative had another suggestion relating to Rappahannock's burgeoning bed-and-breakfast industry: “I think We ought to start taxing those lodgings. We have so many B&Bs now. it would be a nice little income for the county. That's something we ought to look at down the road."
“We did just get legislative authority to do that," noted Mr. McCarthy, referring to enabling legislation which allows counties to impose a tax on lodging.
“Exactly!” Dr. Krebser confirmed.
In other action at Last Wednesday's session, the commissioners
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