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would lose in court,” she said. “So they went to the General Assembly instead.
At a committee meeting for the bill in the House, deGive said she was surprised — and appalled — to see Carl Bommer, a major building industry- lobbyist, sitting at the conference table with the delegates.
De Give compared House Bill 2324 to the Right to Farm Bill. “It means unless a county totally changes its zoning, it can’t distinguish between one house or 1,000.”
“The General Assembly is sticking it to local government with this bill,” she concluded.
Merle Fallon, a land use attorney in Fauquier County who represents applicants going through the permit process, disagreed and said he was delighted with the bill’s progress.
“Fauquier wants to stifle growth,”'he said.
He described county use of the special exception process as arbitrary, saying that it put politics into zoning.
How this bill will impact the county will be answered in the next few months, as the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors deal with zoning changes dictated by the state.
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