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except that above ground utilities could be allowed with a special exception. .0
Member Werner Krebser sug>, gested that the amendments not allow cinder block buildings, but Mr. McCarthy said he believed something “that close to an architectural review board would be slapped down.”
The housing improvement study* was funded by a grant. At the time, Mr. McCarthy said other grant funds might be available to improve substandard housing. The study was completed in 1990, but not presented to the planners, Mr. McCarthy said, because “the money disappeared.”
He said that most of the funds available are going to more urban areas with larger concentrations of substandard housing. “Planning District Nine is pursuing grants for us under the block grant program,” he said. “This report entitles us to apply, but there is a bias against rural areas.”
As a part of the study six areas were studied, Chester Gap, Laurel Mills, Rappahannock Lakes, Route 626 west of Washington, Route 659 near Flint Hill and Sperryville. Few responses were obtained from the Flint Hill neighborhood, and it was dropped from the study.
Survey teams worked in each area. According to the report they visited houses and talked with the residents “to gether information on housing conditions and characteristics of the occupants such as household size and income.” One hundred and eighty houses were included in the surveys. Of these 56 “dwellings occupied by low- and moderate-income households were determined to need some degree of rehabilitation or improvement. These households contained 153 residents including 46 elderly individuals...Two-thirds of the dwellings were owner-occupied. ”
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