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Permitting bed-and-breakfast inns to provide dinner is also “unfair to the restaurants in town that have to comply with all kinds of regulations” set by the Health Department, added Dr. Krebser, who owns the building in Washington which houses the Village Cafe. “If they want to have a restaurant, they ought to open one in Amissville. They ought to open one in Flint Hill or in Sperryville — not out in the countryside.”
Zoning Administrator John McCarthy countered that the impact of six vehicle trips per day — the maximum expected to be generated by inns limited to accommodations for 12 overnight guests — won’t change if customers eat and go home instead of staying the night. “I fail to see how the intensity of the use would be any different.”
In addition, he noted that the county has established a precedent for allowing restaurants in agricultural areas by approving a special use permit for a 25-seat dining room as part of the Ibarque Lodge’s six-room bed-andbreakfast.
As to having an unfair advantage over more tightlyregulated restaurants, Mr. McCarthy pointed out that bed-and-breakfast inns are inspected and licensed by the Health Department in much the same manner.
Dr. Krebser said he saw no problem with the Ibarque Lodg$sinee its owners had stated their intentions at the outset. “They’re doing what they said they were going to do. That’s not the same with B & Bs. . . . You’re going to have restaurants everywhere in the countryside, and they are commercial establishments, so how are you
See B & B, p. 15
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