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Phil Irwin, speaking for the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, asked the planners to table consideration of the application for a month.
Dick McNear said he agreed the revised application was an improvement, but added, “This is a sizeable concentration of structures. It may be out of character here in Rappahannock County.”
Mrs. Maeyer noted that “the west view is me. If you can hold 100 in the banquet room seated, how many can stand? Are there restrictions?”
Uli Maeyer asked the planners what would happen if he decided to put in a pig farm next door. “Would my agricultural use be restricted by their commercial operation?” He said that ending outside music by 11 p.m. is not much help since he usually goes to bed by 9:30 p.m.
“This will be the second or third biggest business in Rappahannock,” he continued. “I say it should go to the commercial area. Suppose I come up and want to build a German restaurant. I could sue the heck out of you if you don’t give me the same volume. Maybe there is an Italian in the next farm. We could have a county of big restaurants.”
He noted that his wife’s farm had lost land for the highway expansion, “and now you want to put a big hotel next to us. What’s next?”
With the public hearing closed the planners took up the application. They asked the applicants to agree to end outside music at 10 p.m., to shield existing as well as new outside lighting, to include mature plantings to shield the parking area, and to agree to restrict the banquet hall to no more than 100 people. The applicants agreed to these conditions.
Wakefield representative Werner Krebser said the expanded Bleu Rock would demand more county services for fire and rescue and for trash. He said he could approve the expanded lodge but nol the banquet hall. “I’d like to see any where in the ordinance that this type of banquet facility is included,” he said.
County Administrator John Me Carthy said the ordinance did nol spell oiit what additional facilities could be included in a lodge or resorl because the supervisors wantec “flexibility” to be able to considei applications as they came up.
Sid Gottleib, who represents the Board of Zoning Appeals on the Planning Commission, said he woule prefer more time to consider the ap plication. He said he was concemec about the precedent being set.
Dr. Krebser and Mr. Gottleit voted “no” on the motion to recommend approval for the application.
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