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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Blaming an oversight, Washington’s Town Council agreed last week to advertise for public hearing a vacation procedure against one of the lots in the recently approved L.O.M.P. subdivision (the former Stuart property) at the north end of town.
The problem surfaced when former mayor Newbill Miller pointed out that the town/county boundary runs through two of the lots on the southwestern comer of the parcel. Those lots, two of the seven created when the property was subdivided by the purchasers, are exactly 1.5 acres in size — the minimum allowed in the rural residential zoning district.
However, because part of the property lies outside the town boundary, that acreage cannot be counted toward the amount necessary to create the lots. The town council has voiced that policy during several zoning controversies, most recently during an on-going dispute with town resident Claybert Smoot over a piece of property he is trying to subdivide.
According to County Administrator John McCarthy, “there’s nothing in the town ordinances that says you can or can’t count land in the county toward those lots.” However, he added, “the town and county’s policy has been to not allow that to be done.”
Town Attorney Frank Reynolds con
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