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By Cheryl K. Chumley
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A Hume winery zoning issue that generated a great deal of public scrutiny, as it pit Oasis Vineyard against the Fauquier government and ultimately helped fuel the General Assembly into action, has been in holding pattern for months - and will probably remain so for more weeks to come, said one attorney involved with the case.
“Both sides are kind of negotiating,” said Philip Strother, counsel for The Salahi Family Limited Partnership, Oasis Vineyard, Inc., and husbandwife winery owners, Tareq and Michaele Salahi. “Part of it has to do with both sides looking into the bill at the General Assembly.”
Kevin Burke, county attorney, declined to comment.
The bill to which Strother referred was an April-approved amendment to state code guiding how local governments might regulate wineries.
Introduced by Delegate David Albo in January as House Bill 1435, the measure underwent significant change during its period of General Assembly debates (see side story).
Of greatest controversy, perhaps, was that Albo’s original version largely confined local governments’ ability to regulate wine-tasting events to noise control and setbacks — a freeing of wineries from most of the special permit process.
It was a part of the bill that was hailed by industry personnel as much as it was condemned by county officials and some citizen groups.
Virginia Association of Counties’ representatives speaking in Richmond shortly after the bill’s introduction, for instance, called it an “erosion of
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