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Mayor Morehouse, Ray Gooch and Brad Fisher voting in favor, and Mr. Skowronski against.
Councilman Reinhardt Lynch, who is one of the Inn’s owners, disqualified himself from consideration of the application. Councilwoman Evelyn Willis also disqualified herself, though she noted she has an opinion from the Commonwealth’s Attorney that her contract work for the Inn would not pose a conflict in this case. Mayor Morehouse stated his involvement in the LOMP partnership, which also included the Inn’s owners, but said it did not involve a conflict in his consideration of the proposed amendments.
In considering the proposed amendment to allow parking for a commercial use in a residential zone by special use permit, providing the two lots are under common ownership, Mr. Dickey pointed out that parking has become a problem in the town. He also noted that language in the town’s comprehensive plan seems to provide for the use.
Mr. Wickens replied, as one of the authors of the comprehensive plan, that when it was written the words “special permit” were intended to apply to limited-use parking, as for the town’s Independence Day celebration, and were never meant to apply to a permanent parking lot.
“This is a flexibility the town •could well use,” Mr. Dickey said, “ .. . With very careful special use permit restrictions to govern it. . . the conditions should be applied at the time of the permit. We would expect
See COUNCIL, p. 18
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