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“Does that mean you should not put houses on the highest knoll because it will impact someone else’s view?” Mitchell asked.
“I think we need a site inspection,” Board of Supervisors representative Mike Massie recommended.
“I used to think it is a great idea to put a house on a hill,” Wakefield representative Werner Krebser said. “But not any more.”
“When you drive over the hill and see that view, you think you’ve gone to Heaven,” Stonewall-Hawthom representative Sharon Pierce said. “Rappahannock is not going to be attractive if every little hill has a house on it. If you’re going to get the view, you’re also going to get the wind.”
Massie pointed out that the new zoning ordinance would allow Mitchell to instead cut off six five-acre lots. “We’re trying to encourage that,” he said. “By dividing it into 25-acre lots, you take away the chance to farm.”
“I don’t want a lot of five-acre lots around me,” Mitchell said. “I have no desire for the lots to be less than 25 acres.”
“If you cut it up like this, there can be no further division of this property,” Krebser said. “You will spoil the neighborhood and the property.”
Neighboring landowner Patricia Saltonstall pointed out that she had a deeded right-of-way through the property that was not shown on the subdivision plat. She said that her right-of-way is dangerous and the entrances to U.S. 211 “are all junky kinds of entrances. Now is the time to correct it.”
McCarthy told the planners that the Virginia Department of Transportation has not yet given approval to the proposed road for the subdivision. Planning Commission members suggested that Mitchell get together with Mrs. Saltonstall and highway department personnel, to try to resolve the problems of highway entrances.
“The siting of the house going up now is just terrible,” Mrs. Saltonstall said. “I hope there is not going to be a house on every hillock. I’ve been wanting to take a picture of the land and put it in the paper with a house drawn on every hill.”
She suggested that Mitchell use consultant Meade Palmer of Warrenton in locating the houses on the land. “The land looks so bare because the Cookseys took all the wood off it,” she said. She said many people had asked her why she hadn’t built a house for herself on the mountain. “I walk up on the mounr
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