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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Neva Staff Writer
The Board of Zoning Appeals denied Roy and Betty Thomas’s application for a variance from side yard setback requirements to build a 24 by 24 foot storage shed on their property in Old Hollow.
According to the zoning ordinance, to qualify for a variance the applicants must demonstrate that denial would constitute a hardship “approaching confiscation.”
Their two-acre property is in an agricultural zone, and side yard setbacks are supposed to be a minimum of 50 feet in that zone. The Thomases requested that the minimum be reduced to 15 feet.
They wanted the closer setback so the shed would not block the view of their house and to make the building closer to the road for their handicapped son to get on the school bus.
However, the Thomases are living on William and Linda Dietel’s farm outside Flint Hill, not on their property in Old Hollow. Their 15year-old son, who has muscular dystrophy, uses a motorized wheelchair.
“You could be staying at the Dietels until the school issue is over,” member Sid Gottlieb said. “I’m par
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