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Nan Thoma88on, Gene Leggett, Carol Miller, the Rev. Jennings Hobson III, Elizabeth Buntin, Laurie Marshall and Diane Bruce.

Asked for comment on what is certainly the report’s primary recommendation, the scaling down of the project, The Inn’s co-owner and chef Patrick O’Connell responded, “We have just received the report and are still studying it along with the individual questionnaires. It would be premature at this time to make specific comments on a survey which took more than a year to compile.”

Mr. O’Connell and partner Reinhardt Lynch requested that the Rappahannock News submit written questions about the report.

“We can’t possibly know how much increased tax revenue any expansion will yield the town without knowing how many additional rooms the town will approve. The more it approves, of course, the more lodging taxes the town will earn and the more viable it will make this project. We are extremely grateful to the citizens who served on the committee and know that the report will be very helpful. We were very pleased by the number of citizens who welcome a tasteful expansion of The Inn,” wrote Mr. O’Connell.

The report suggests “intelligible and mutually satisfying compromise,” tells both sides in the controversy to “end the petty bickering and nastiness’ which has characterized so much of the conversation on this issue,” calls for “continued and increased community support and interaction” and tells Mr. O’Connell and Mr. Lynch “to listen clearly to the expression of concern.”

The Inn’s owners’ written responses suggest they may not wait long to continue to pursue the project, reveal their frustration with the negative reaction the expansion has engendered and leave open the possibility they may leave the town.

“Having already received the necessary zoning, the next phase

Correction

Fanning Baumgardner’s

name was misspelled in the

story last week on architecture

consultant William Remington.