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golf course.
“If you use the land to build houses, the land can’t be counted for the golf course,” Board of Zoning Appeals representative Sid Gottlieb maintained.
“How can you distinguish whether the residue is agriculture or a golf course?” Board of Supervisors’ representative Mike Massie asked. “I think we have a misunderstanding.”
“I don’t think it’s a misunderstanding; it’s just a difference of opinion,” Jackson District representative David Fannon said.
“I treat agricultural use totally different from a golf course,” Dr. Krebser said. “A golf course is a commercial establishment. It puts more pressure than agriculture.”
“Why would you want to give up more land?” Mr. McCarthy asked. “You should make as much use as you can of a little bit ... I think there are good public policy reasons not to extract the acreage out. It’s better to pack development in.”
The planners moved on to a discussion of the distinctions between bed and breakfasts, lodges, and hotels and motels. Mr. McCarthy said that bed and breakfasts are limited to five rooms. Hotels and motels are only allowed in the general commercial and highway commercial areas, he said.
“A lodge is bigger than a bed and breakfast. It includes restaurants, wineries. It’s more vague and amorphous,” Mr. McCarthy said.
Mr. Fannon suggested it be defined as having 20 of fewer double occupancy rooms.
By the end of the discussion, the planners appeared to have reached a concensus on increasing the minimum number of acres required for golf courses, limiting the number of rooms in lodges, requiring an adequate water supply for a golf course and adding setback requirements for greens.
The only actual vote taken at the meeting was to allow Alfred and Klara Kummli to add their 844.6 acres to the Krebser Agricultural District north of Flint Hill.
The application by the Settles to rezone property in back of their service station in Flint Hill to village commercial was postponed until the August meeting at the request of their attorney, James W. Fletcher III.
Mr. Massie reported on a meeting he attended in Madison County on ridge-top development sponsored by the Piedmont Environmental Council. “There were a lot of questions, but not a lot of answers,” he reported.
He said that Clarke County now requires an erosion and sedimentation control plan for any disturbance of the land greater than 2,500 square feet on steep land.
Mrs. Pierce, who also attended the meeting, reported that Loudoun County is trying to influence location of houses on an informal basis by
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