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Earlier the board voted to deny Robert Misdom’s request to rezone his 7.3-acre parcel on Route 611 near Amissville from Agriculture to R-2. The parcel is part of the nine-lot Cannon-Hoyle subdivision created in the early 1960’s.
Mr. Misdom said that allowing him to create two additional lots on his land would enable him to build affordable housing and would allow for gradual growth in an area less than one mile from Amissville.
Mr. Misdom was supported by a neighbor, Robert Lindquist, who said that the rezoning would support the board’s desire to have development on the side roads away from U.S. 211. “He has acreage in excess of his needs in an area that is suited and slated for development,” Mr. Lindquist said. “It is better to let Rappahannock citizens do slower development,” he said. “Otherwise development pressures from adjacent counties will raise our taxes . . . Small landowners are being hurt by this 25-acre zoning.”
Col. Bingham supported the rezoning request. “We have to provide for the growth we know will take place,” he said. “As lawmakers we must be very cautious in denying it when we know there is a need for it. I’m against mass development, but I’m for natural growth. It’s the o.ily way we’re going to get affordable housing.”
The other supervisors opposed the rezoning on the basis that rezoning one parcel in an old subdivision that was not contiguous to other similarly zoned land would constitute “spot zoning.”
Col. Bingham’s motion to approve the rezoning died for lack of a second. Mr. Massie moved that the rezoning be denied, and his motion passed four to one, with Col. Bingham voting "No.”
The supervisors did approve the
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