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sider that all land will be developed, but I’m less worried when I watch them pulling calves out of heifers at 7:30 a.m. in the rain.
“The zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance and comprehensive plan control where they can develop and where they can’t,” he concluded.
When the discussion moved to the boundary between the Town of Washington and the county, the board members indicated they were no longer interested in changing the boundary. Town resident Claybert Smoot had requested that the two bodies look into the problem because the line now drawn, which cuts across his property, leaves him less than enough land to subdivide a lot from his land.
“To change the boundary would require a new survey and General Assembly approval,” Mr. Estes pointed out.
The problem occurs when the boundary line splits property. “I don’t think drawing the line created two contiguous lots,” Mr. Gilkey said. In other words, a lot bisected by a boundary line remains one lot, not two.
After discussing the possibility of ruling that the zoning ordinances of whatever jurisdiction contains the majority of the property would prevail, the supervisors decided to explore the possibility of getting an agreement with the town that whenever a split property had less than one acre in the county, town zoning would prevail for the entire lot.
At the end of the meeting Mr. McCarthy reported that accountant Wally Cox had delivered more bad news to the supervisors. After reviewing expenses for the year, Mr. Cox said the county might not make it to the end of the fiscal year before running out of money. “We may have to borrow up to $io0,000 to get through June 30,” Mr. McCarthy said.
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