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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors’ public hearing Monday evening on Emiel and Lynda Smet’s request to rezone their farm for the Windemeer Estates subdivision brought testimony similar to that heard by the Planning Commission last month.
The 131-acre parcel is located on the east side of Route 642 in Amissville, less than one mile south of its intersection with U.S. 211 at Hackley’s Store. Presently, most of the property is zoned Agricultural, with 25-acre minimum lots, while a small piece on the northern boundary is zoned R-2, which could be subdivided into two-acre lots.
The Smets are asking the county to rezone the entire parcel to R-5, which would allow residential development of five-acre lots.
Mr. Smet said his proposal is to split the property into nine lots of at least 10 acres each, with another lot of at least 25 acres. He also requested the option to subdivide one additional lot at some time in the future.
Though the rezoning would allow five-acre lots, the Smets have offered voluntary deed restrictions, known as proffers, which would limit the size of each lot to at least 10 acres. They have also proposed to include covenants in each deed requiring any house to be at least 2,500 square feet, that utilities and any fuel storage tanks (such as heating oil) be buried, that satellite dish antennas be screened and all fencing be of board and that all trailers and recreational vehicles be stored in garages.
The rezoning request drew the support of all but one speaker at the Planning
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