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Post Offices
The Planning Commission was correct in recommending that the Board of Zoning Appeals turn down the application to put the new Amissville Post Office three lots down Route 645 from the intersection with U.S. 211.
The Comprehensive Plan calls for development to occur around the villages. If the village concept means anything, it means that facilities central to village life should be near the center of the villages:
Route 645 is east of Early’s Carpet. What remains of the village of Amissville centers aroud Hackley’s Store and the current post office building. The United States Postal Service should look at that area for the future post office.
Some years ago the planners faced four applications for new locations for. a post office. At that time they said they wanted the new post office on the south side of U.S. 211 and they approved one site in that location. They also approved a site on the north side, but that would have been in an existing commercially used building. - Fearing that the Postal Service might move the post office out of the county, the planners and Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to the zoning ordinance that allows post offices in rural residential zoned land. That was a mistake, and the objection of nearby neighbors to having a post office across the road from them makes that clear.
Nothing came of the planners’ support for two post office locations several years ago. A new national administration was elected and approval of new locations for post offices was pul on hold. We can be sure that on the eve of another Presidential election if the Board of Zoning Appeals goes along with the planners recommendation, the same thing will happen again.
That does not mean that Rappahannock County and the Amissville postal patrons should have to put up with the inadequate current post office forever, but it does mean that there should be no rush to approve a location in a rural residential area so far removed from the cefiter of Amissville.
Power Outage
; A portion of Washington was without electricity Monday afterncton because Potomac Edison apparently ignored a warning they received Thursday night that there was a serious and potentially *• dangerous problem with a line on Piedmont Avenue. ; The homeowner deserves an explanation of why her report was ignored until the line burned through and a portion of the town was without electricity. She feels understandably that the safety of her hcjuse and the health of her family was put at risk.
! Potomac Edison has been sending out press releases trying to explain that consolidating more and more of the company’s operatipns with Alegheny Power is going to lead to improved service in a!highly competitive environment. Instead it appears that what is happening is the people who actually do the work are being laid off leaving customers with poorer service and greater frustration.
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