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Board
approves
Aileen
purchase
BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Writer
At its year-end meeting on June 22, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the purchase of the Aileen property in Flint Hill for $137,500. The 33 acre property has been tied up in bankruptcy court since 1994, and is contaminated with trichloroethene (TCE) and its degradation products.
The acquisition is of benefit to the County, said County Administrator John McCarthy and County Attorney Peter Luke, for a number of reasons: the County, unlike a private concern, will receive immunity from any liability related to the contamination as long as it complies with its proposed remediation program; the County will get control of the industrialzoned parcel in an area that, according to Mr. McCarthy, “is not a place we want industrial zoning,” and will move to downzone a significant portion of the property; and the control of the parcel provides the County with the opportunity to promote the commercial use of the existing plant, to bring it back on the tax rolls (it had generated $15,000 per year when in operation) and provide employment in the County.
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