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ARB Chairman
Miller resigns
By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Charging that the Town Council’s decision to allow the county to construct an addition to the jail means that Washington’s historic buildings cannot be protected, Architectural Review Board Chairman Carol Miller resigned last week.
In a letter addressed to Mayor Dean Morehouse and the members of the council, Mrs. Miller noted that the job of an ARB is “difficult, controversial and often very disagreeable.” (Emphasis hers) Mrs. Miller accepted the appointment to the ARB when it was formed in August, 1985, “thinking it was a reasonable price to pay for Historic Building preservation in our town,” her letter continues.
However, Mrs. Miller charged, the council’s decision to approve the county’s application for the jail addition, “to allow an historically significant building to be encroached upon in a manner clearly against our standards and guidelines . . . makes it clear to me that our town’s Historic Landmarks cannot be protected in a uniform and impartial manner.” (Emphasis again hers)
Mrs. Miller’s letter states that, in her opinion, the council’s decision was “in conflict with the opinion of our expert architectural advisors, and contrary to prior Architectural Review Board decisions with almost the same issues (publicly supported by two members of the Council) ...
“If historically significant buildings mentioned in our previous survey cannot be protected, then the Architectural Review Board becomes a ‘Designer Board’ whose decisions will be made with ‘Looks good to me,’ ‘individual taste,’ and ‘personal preference,’ ” Mrs. Miller’s letter states.
“Without historic preservation of historically significant buildings I do not feel the Historic District OrdiSee
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