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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newg Staff Writer
The Rappahannock County Planning Commission voted 4-0, with two abstentions, to recommend denial of Emiel and Lynda Smet’s request for rezoning to Rural Residential for their Windemeer Estates subdivision at their regular meeting Nov. 15.
The Board of Supervisors will consider this recommendation when it takes up the rezoning request at its December meeting.
The Smets had proposed to subdivide approximately 120 acres into nine parcels, each containing at least 10 acres. One of the parcels would be more than 25 acres, and the Smets’ proposal also asked that they be allowed to cut off another parcel of more than 10 acres from that residue at some future time.
Part of the property, which is located on Route 642 just south of its intersection with U.S. 211 in Amissville, is currently zoned R-2, which allows two-acre house lots. The remainder of the land is zoned Agriculture, which requires a minimum lot size of 25 acres.
The Rural Residential zoning requested would allow lots of five acres, but the Smets offered to proffer the larger lots as a condition of the rezoning. Restrictions against further subdivision would also have been included in the deeds to the lots.
Attorney Frank Reynolds, representing the Smets, said they had petitions with 41 names of people who supported the proposed subdivision, saying they preferred the larger lots rather than tw o-acre lots or cluster zoning. He said they were proposing additional restrictions “aimed at making sure it is a high-quality subdivision.”
The additional restrictions would require that each house be at least 2,500 square feet, not counting garage space; that all utilities be underground; that all fuel storage be underground; that above-ground foundations be brick faced, that any satellite dishes be screened; that all lots be board fenced, and that no metal fence be allowed unless it is screened; that no tents or trailers be allowed and that no recreational vehicles be allowed unless they are garaged, Mr. Reynolds explained.
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