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zone for the general commercial district between the Wolf Mountain Traders and Route 622.
However, two citizens were attending trying to find out more about that proposal. Carolyn Butler, who owns property on the south side of U.S. 211 in the area of the zone, said she wanted to find out what was being proposed for her land.
The planners said the proposal would not rezone her land but would designate it as suitable for rezoning to general commercial.
If the plan is adopted landowners requesting rezoning would have to comply with site plan specifications for screening and lighting.
The plan is also designed to limit the number of entrances onto U.S. 211 by “funneling traffic onto new roads,” Mr. McCarthy said.
He said the same “broad set of standards could be applied elsewhere.”
Mr. Massie said that the reason the planners were considering the plan was “to encourage businesses to locate in Rappahannock County and do it in such a way that it would not be like [U.S.] 29 north of Charlottesville or the Warrenton by-pass.”
He said that he had heard objections that this plan would forbid new commercial operations anywhere else in the county, but this is not true, since “there are still places it can go in the villages.”
Carson Johnson asked if the commission had done studies on the soil in the area to “get a feel for how
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