pensive at this point to show all four sides

pensive at this point to show all four sides of all three proposals. The first drawing primarily showed the 12 additional rooms. The other two showed variations of the front of the banquet facility. He said the additional rooms would be built to the north of the present building to take advantage of the views to the north and west.

Jean Campagne said he and his brother had brought the property seven years ago and had put a lot of work into it. “We’re getting it back now with the success of the Bleu Rock,” he said. He said they have to turn down people who want to stay at the inn most weekends. He said on Saturday May 16, then had a wedding with 110 people present and then served 120 for dinner. “I asked my neighbors if they had heard noises,” he said.

“We try very hard,” he said. “We want to grow the way the county wants us to grow.”

Mr. Campagne said he did not expect the banquet room to be used very often to its fullest capacity, but he would expect to use it also for smaller groups divided into meeting space and dining space or perhaps display space. u

of the Bleu Rock. He said, “I am opposed to commercial development along (U.S.) 211 to Sperryville.” He said that by using the special exception process the county could have control over growth. He said he owns land on the mountain behind the Bleu Rock.

“Everything they have done has been beautiful,” he said. He said businesses like the Bleu Rock add to the county’s tax base without the look of most commercial growth.

Mark Malek said the board of directors of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection opposed the Bleu Rock expansion and felt such a commercial venture should be located in the general commercial district.

Uli Maeyer, who lives on the farm west of the Bleu Rock, said he had supported the original Bleu Rock proposal but felt the expansion would mean “a big commercial busiRobert

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