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or lighting in the county, was the only subject before six commissioners in attendance (out of seven), the County Administrator, 15 interested members of the public. *
The ordinance in question has gone through a strained history, after being proposed three years ago. It languished in the filing cabinet of the Board of Supervisors until Rappahannock residents Gwen Hays and Clyde Humphrey took up the cudgel with light meters and an expertise on the subject.
A lighting ordinance, written, hashed over and favored or not by the commission, will eventually be decided by the county supervisors, who are under no legal obligation to follow the recommendations of the Planning Commissioners.
Many of the arguments heard at this meeting were twice told. The attendees from the public supported the ordinance to the person, with the single exception of resident David L. Konick, who said he was “neither for it nor against it. I’m just afraid we are inviting in trouble.”
Animal metaphors flew like bats in the night, starting with Hal Hunter of the Jackson District, who mentioned that the people of Loudoun County were trying to get the horses of rampant development back in their bam, while this fighting ordinance in Rappahannock “will add another lock to the bam door as to keeping the horses inside.”
Bob Dennis of the Wakefield District referred to a camel. “This ordinance will only apply
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