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By Jan LaValley
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The main item of business before the Rappahannock County Planning Commission last week was the application by Kathleen Maier for an herbal studies center.
The commission recommended approval of the application to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Maier had applied for permission to operate the Dreamtime Herbal Studies Center on land owned by Sunnyside Farms, LLC. The school will run from March through November, is limited to 20 participants and has a one year limit. Maier had operated the center near the site in 1996 and 1997. This year they will be using the “yellow house” on the property as a base of operations.
The application had health department and VDOT approval and letters of support for the center were included as well.
In other business the commission discussed the draft telecommunications ordinance outline from Fauquier County. Rappahannock’s ordinance dealing with telecommunications towers says they can only be located in Chester Gap. Federal rulings have made that ordinance impossible to enforce so the county must enact a new ordinance in hopes of being able to enforce it.
County Administrator John McCarthy told the commission that Fauquier’s ordinance is fairly elaborate but it has gotten good press and tries to force the telecommunications companies to co-locate as much as possible thereby cutting down on the number of towers being erected.
Rappahannock, because of its topography will have dead spots between the lines of sight for the towers — especially in the hollows. There is no place to build one tower here and get better than 90 percent
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