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Focus on the issue
As Washington’s Planning Commission considers the application for rezoning and ordinance amendments proposed by The Inn at Little Washington, we urge the commissioners to focus on the real issues before them.
Most of the speakers at last month’s public hearing — and, we suspect — most of those who will speak later this month, commented on The Inn’s plans for expansion.
Unfortunately, that’s not the subject of this public hearing. The Inn is requesting a rezoning and amendments to the town’s zoning ordinance, not approval of the addition’s design.
Conceiveably, The Inn’s owners could be granted all three of their requests and never build anything at all on their property. Or, they could propose a project completely different from the one which was outlined last month.
The proper place for comment on the design submitted by The Inn is — assuming the process goes this far — when its application is considered by the Architectural Review Board. They are empowered to enforce the town’s standards of architectural appropriateness.
The question the commissioners must address is whether the rezoning from residential to mixed use and the two zoning amendments are in the public interest. Their decision, and the reasons for it, should be based on those considerations alone.
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