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the outset,” he said.

Mr. O’Connell said there was “no new information in the citizens’ report. It’s just statistically clearer and enlightening,” and that they have not begun reading the individual questionaires yet.

He said some of the recommendations in the report, regarding parking and septic capacity, were in his view not significant hurdles. Sadies of traffic and septic that were commissioned by The Inn last year, he said, “basically . . . indicated there would be no difficulty in dealing with the town’s concerns.”

The traffic study indicated that the previously announced expansion plan would only add 1 percent to the traffic flow. About septic, Mr. O’Connell stated: “Obviously we’re not going to create a septic field that doesn’t work.”

He said The Inn has not set any timetable for pursuing the expansion, but left little doubt it would do so eventually. “I think it’s clear that we and our business need to grow,” he said.

Confirming reports that The Inn has had offers to relocate if the environment in Washington is not conducive to that growth, Mr. O’Connell stated that during the beginning of the “controversy” the owners were receiving “about three offers per day from Realtors, towns and other people who would find an operation such as ours only a plus.” They amounted to a “staggering amount” of proposals to move, he said.

“In every way a clean asset with prestige is what every small town dreams of,” he said.

However, he added, “We have faith that we will come to a very happy resolution here. The town and county are every day warming to the

Correction

The color photo on Page A1

of last week’s paper was not,

as the cutline stated, an example

of Tanya Richey’s artwork,

on display at Middle Street

through July. It was a shot of

the full moon, taken by staff

photographer Cindy Mahan

two weeks ago. The Rappahannock

News regrets the

mix-up.