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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Ncwi Staff Writer
The Town of Washington’s Board of Zoning Appeals voted to overturn Zoning Administrator John McCarthy’s decision to allow Fredette Eagle to build a studio on a nonconforming lot.
The studio Mrs. Eagle proposed to build was essentially the same building she had earlier applied to the BZA to build as a residence. When Mrs. Eagle applied to the BZA for a variance to build the residence, her application was denied on the basis that it would have been a more intense use of the property than the fallen-down shed currently on the property.
It was to have been a two-story log building with a shed addition. Mrs. Eagle had altered her plans by eliminating the kitchen and by eliminating bathing facilites from the bathroom.
Based on those alterations Mr. McCarthy issued an opinion that Mrs. Eagle was entitled to build the studio as an accessory building to her dwelling across Wheeler Street from the proposed studio.
Diane Bruce, who owns the Rabbit Gum, a house across the stub end of Gay Street from the proposed studio, appealed to the BZA to overturn Mr. McCarthy’s decision.
The lot is very small and the shed on it takes up almost all of the lot leaving little or no setbacks from the lot lines or from Wheeler Street.
The proposed studio would have covered most of the same area but would have been taller.
Town Attorney Frank Reynolds advised the BZA members that they would have to determine whether an accessory building could be on a sep
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