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Jail clears
last hurdle
By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The county’s jail addition project has cleared its final hurdle, winning approval last Thursday for the exterior detailing not addressed by the Town Council in its approval of the plan.
County Administrator John McCarthy negotiated with the three Architectural Review Board members present at last week’s meeting. One was new member Patrick O’Connell, appointed the night before by the Town Council. The other newly appointed member. Donna Kevis, was not at the meeting.
The appointments of Mr. O’Connell and Mrs. Kevis came as a result of the council’s approval of an expansion of the board to five members. That, plus the resignation last month of Chairman Carol Miller, left three openings.
The third opening has not yet been filled, since the council is still debating whether to allow one county resident to sit on the board.
Mr. McCarthy agreed to the stipulations requested by the ARB for the addition to the jail. The only substantive change to the plans presented by architect Steve Biegel was the removal of the metal stars from the sides of the building.
Although in older buildings the stars served both decorative and functional purposes, as end caps for the tie rods which helped to support the walls, their purpose in the jail addition was purely decorative, Mr. McCarthy acknowledged. And, he added, “they are a Federal motif, where the building is primarily a Georgian structure."
“They are only a visual aspect," Mr. O’Connell agreed, “which bothers me because they look bogus. The building would be more handsome without them."
The ARB agreed to the county’s plan to move the summer kitchen from its present site abutting the west wall of the jail to the clear area between the jail and the exercise yard. There it will serve as a storage building while also screening the exercise yard.
See ARB, p. 14
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