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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“The Library Board doesn’t have the authority to convey property without the prior approval of the Board of Supervisors after a public hearing. ”
That was the ruling from county attorney Peter Luke on the question of who “owns” the old Presbyterian Church building on Gay Street which now houses the Rappahannock County Public Library.
The issue arose with the Library Board’s plans to build a new library off Route 211 just beyond Washington’s town limits.
Word came in bits and pieces. The first public announcement was by way of a petition to the Board of Supervisors to add libraries to the list of uses.allowed by special exception on agriculturally-zoned land. On the heels of Jhe^zonmg’dfainance amendment accomplishing that purpose, the supervisors were asked to issue a special exception permit to the Library Board for two acres donated by Dean Morehouse, a Northern Virginia builder and mayor of the Town of Washington. Lgjjtt parcel, forv merly part of the George Davis property^ is familiar to Rappahannock residents as the site of the'living nativity pageant put on every Christmas by local churches.)
According to the library’s trustees, the library has
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