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Mike Massie, who represents the Board of Supervisors on the Planning Commission, asked if Mr. Strange would be willing to give up the right-of-way for the two lots and have all lot owners use the pipestem road. Mr. Strange said he would not be willing to do that.
William Keim said'he owned land that joins the property for three-fourths of a mile. “I would look straight up at a housing development. It makes me feel ill,” he said.
Mr. Strange said he had planned house sites for the five lots, and that he did not believe they would all be visible.
James Massie and Lindsey Eastham from the Rappahannock Farmers Association said they were concerned about more land going out of farming and into subdivisions. Mr. Eastham said it would be better to put all five houses in one corner of the property and leave the rest oj>en for farmland.
Stonewall-Hawthorn District representative Sharon Pierce said the planners had allowed such development in the past when the landowner requested it but could not require it.
Mr. McCarthy said he was concerned with the precedent of allowing land that is otherwise land-locked to be developed by buying a narrow pipestem. He said the original property had been divided leaving this parcel not developable because it is served only by a narrow right-of-way. By putting in a road along a pipestem
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