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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
John Dove’s application for a special exception to have a commercial sawmill in an agricultural zone won a recommendation for approval from the Planning Commission last Wednesday.
The planners also approved Werner Krebser’s final site plan for an expansion at Flint Hill Square and recommended approval for a bed and breakfast business near Peola Mills.
Mr. Dove rents the sawmill owned by Aubrey North in Huntly. Last summer he received a building permit to replace the shed that covers the saw. He replacment shed is 30 feet by 80 feet, two feet wider and six feet taller than the previous shed, which was in bad repair. Mr. Dove said he also wanted to build a 20-foot by 12-foot shed to cover a debarking machine. The debarker will provide him with mulch to sell and prolong the life of bits used in his saw, he said.
The sawmill business was grandfathered in the location, but as a grandfathered use it could only be expanded 50 percent. Mr. Dove decided to request a special exception to have a commercial sawmill rather than applying for hn expansion of a grandfathered use.
Commission Chairman Mike Massie abstained from taking part in the discussion of the application and from chairing the meeting during the hearing on the application. He said he had previously owned land adjoining the mill and had sold it to his sister. ;
Brooke Massie had written the commission opposing the application. She said her letter was based on the assumption that the application was for expanding a grandfathered use. She said pine trees she had planted to screen her view of the sawmill were no longer serving that purpose with the higher shed. She
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