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Fauquier Board of Realtors, said he was surprised and impressed by the county government’s agility in dealing with Wakefield School’s eleventh-hour application for a site.
Florence McCarty, whose family has been applying for about three years to establish a country store and gas station in Delaplane, also was surprised by the quick action over Wakefield.
“It’s amazing they can move that fast,” she said.
Rick Stanley, who owns S&S Auto Sales in New Baltimore, was also surprised. He first applied to set the shop up in July 1989. Final approval came in February of 1990.
Mr. Stanley said that no zoning amendment was needed, since the site was already zoned C3, the same as it is now, but that it took that half year to draw up a site plan that satisfied county regulations.
The episode cost Mr. Stanley $60,000 and he only survived financially, by working some 18-hour days from his house, he said. “It really put a bad taste in my mouth,” he said.
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors James Green, who represents Marshall District in Fauquier, said that “this was recognized as an emergency. All the staff has been working real hard.”
Mr. Goldsmith said the “county is pulling out all the stops and spending a lot of time, (with) frequent meetings” with Wakefield School. Planner Laura Cox said that it “depends how quickly the applicant responds to our questions.”
However, planners say that the case is not crowding out other applications for permits.
“This is not penalizing any other applications. Not that I’m aware of,” Mr. Goldsmith said.
But planners say they do not ex
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