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needed service to the county.
“We really need his services, he’s a good neighbor and his property is not an eyesore,” said Charles Harris, who lives near Flint Hill “We want to keep people like Greg in the community.”
Amissville resident Jack Atkins said Williams trucks are no more dangerous than a farm tractor or a truck loaded with hay. He added that the county has to allow businesses to operate.
“We can’t keep letting this happen,” Atkins said. “We just got to let people have an opportunity to live and work in Rappahannock County or Rappahannock County will die.”
Flint Hill resident Alexia Morrison said Williams has one of the neatest lots on Ben Venue Road. She also said she does not encounter his company’s trucks any more often than tankers that fill her neighbors’ swimming pools.
Opponents claimed that truck traffic from Williams’ business poses a danger on narrow, winding Ben Venue Road. They also said the site’s parked vehicles and wood and mulch piles are a blight on the scenery of the otherwise agricultural and historic byway.
Pat Saltonstall owns Points of View Farm, which overlooks the Williams property. Saltonstall has watched the operation grow over the past several years as it has added vehicles and machinery.
“He has hidden nothing about this venture,” she said.
Saltonstall said she is considering putting a large portion of her 330-acre farm into conservation easement, but now is
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