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ulated that County Administrator John McCarthy must investigate the current use of the other mobile homes on the property . . . The couple had told the (planning) commission and the BZA that their other mobile homes are being used for farm storage.”
I was there. This did not happen. In a telephone interview, Mrs. Hawkins reports that she knows nothing about this proposed police action. She did not agree to any such intrusion nor was she asked to at the meeting; and her approved application mentions nothing about a physical investigation of her family’s farm.
Rappahannock News reporter Jan LaValley, home with a sick child, says she obtained her account of the meeting from John McCarthy.
Can anyone reading this not be able to imagine how the Hawkins family must feel?
From what authority do the planning commission and BZA derive their search and police powers?
We need to scrutinize . county procedures in the conduct of its meetings and implementation of county zoning laws. At the planning and BZA meetings, I have found it very difficult to follow the proceedings. Why? Because it is impossible to hear all of the discussions between and among the commission and board members.
In a July 27 letter to the planning commission chair, I requested that they address the citizens who have come to listen and not each other as they presently do, and that if
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