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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
Editor’s note: Due to luck of space, this story about the April 11 meeting of the Town Council did not appear in last week’s edition of the Rappahannock News.
Following its planning commission’s recommendations, Washington’s Town Council approved a zoning ordinance amendment to allow business structures to increase their height to 45 feet, but denied another suggested amendment which would have allowed parking for commercial uses in a residential zone if the properties were owned by the same people.
Both proposed amendments required the approval of a special use permit for any particular application, and the amendments’ sponsors, The Inn at Little Washington, argued that process provides a method for the council to place restrictions on any particular proposal.
Councilman William Wickens, who is also the chairman of the planning commission, told the council the height amendment had been the subject of “great debate;” whether restrictions should be written into the ordinance about the size of the budding or the percentage of the structure allowed to exceed the ordinance’s by-right limit of 35 feet.
Under the former ordinance, public buildings and private dwellings can build to 45 feet by special use permit, but only by increasing setbacks by one foot for each additional foot of height. The amendment provided for no additional setbacks.
Further restrictions were rejected by the planners, Mr. Wickens
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