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By Monty Tayloe
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals met last Wednesday for the first time since September, voting to deny the application of Dr. Deepthi Gadde to operate a tourist home in a residentially zoned home in Chester Gap. The BZA denied Gadde’s application after hearing the testimony of her neighbors, several of whom attended the meeting, complaining of noise and safety hazards caused by Gadde’s weekend rentals. According to her neighbors, Gadde had been renting the home on weekends since last summer without BZA approval. Gadde was represented before the BZA by Washington attorney Mike Brown, who said that Gadde had rented out the home without a permit because she had been unaware that the county required one. Gadde was made aware when she received a warning letter from County Administrator John McCarthy, responding to complaints from Gadde’s neighbors.
“It totally goes against the kind of neighborhood we have,” said Officer Thomas Goodwin, addressing the BZA. Goodwin, a Fairfax county police officer, owns a home bordering Gadde’s property in Chester Gap. Gadde herself is a Maryland resident, and according to Brown, uses the house as a weekend retreat herself in addition to
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