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Lighting
proposal
to be
heard
By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Rappahannock County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing next Wednesday on a new, revised outdoor lighting ordinance which the backers hope will allay the fears of intrusive government that stalled it in 2001.
Gwen Hays, who with her husband Clyde Humphrey, worked to revive interest in the ordinance, said she polled the Planning Commission members recently and found that none of them would predict how they would vote.
In 2001, the Planning Commission voted to recommend the ordinance to the Board of Supervisors by a 4 to 3 vote. Supervisor Ron Frazier of Amissville voted against the ordinance and later was accused by proponents of keeping the supervisors from bringing the issue to a vote. As a result it was “tabled” for nearly two years.
Frazier declined to predict his vote Monday until after the public hearing. He said the ordinance has been changed, but there was still opposition among people in his district. In 2001 some 150 people in Amissville signed a petition objecting to the measure,
Frazier said the primary objection is the fear that a government five to 10 years in the future will broaden the law to cover private houses. He said people see the move as a sign of intrusive government.
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