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Rezoning
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use the property, even if it is rezoned, he pointed out.
Mr. Dickey also suggested, in a memo addressed to the council members, that the town’s zoning ordinances and comprehensive plan are fundamentally flawed and often contradictory, and therefore difficult to interpret and address.
However, Mr. McCarthy criticized Mr. Dickey’s memo, charging that “you have picked and chosen from among the public and private opinions of myself, the town attorney and the members of the Planning Commission.”
Town Treasurer Brad Fisher was even more blunt in his criticism of Mr. Dickey’s attacks on the town’s ordinances and the opinions of Town Attorney Frank Reynolds. The arguments are “hogwash,” he said, adding that “An old and wise saying tells us that it is bad form to insult the alligator before you cross the river.”
He also took issue with Mr. Dickey’s concluding paragraph, in which he stated, “. . . this modest request for a rezone is wholy correct. Its denial would be legally unenforceable. Your refusal to approve this request will constitute a declaration by the Council that the Town of Washington does not welcome the continued presence of the Inn in this community.”
He pointed to the memo’s footnote, which contrasted Washington’s meals and lodging tax with the incentives offered by other localities
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