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Winfield said he has had a couple conversations with people who are interested in shops or studios for their arts and crafts.
“There’s a shortage of space for those people,” he said.
Winfield presented his vision to the Rappahannock Comity Planning Commission at the group’s June meeting. The idea was up for discussion only, and was not a formal application.
Commission members seemed in support of his concept, but offered a few suggestions and warnings.
The size of Winfield’s planned structure, at less than 2,000 square feet, falls within the zoning regulations permitted by a special-use permit in general commercial zoning districts.
The problem is that Winfield’s lot is zoned agricultural.
County Administrator John McCarthy said the comprehensive plan would need to be amended to allow commercial zoning off a main highway away from the county’s designated villages.
But perhaps the biggest hurdle Winfield will have to leap is what to do with sewage on the site.
He said he is concerned that a drain field would not work for the property, because it includes some landfill along the river. The lot is not in the flood plain.
An engineer advised Winfield to build a small septic system to accommodate the flow of 3,000 gallons per day. He said the self-contained system looks like a dumpster and the cleaned effluent could be discharged into the Thornton River.
Hanning Commission members warned Winfield that such a discharge plan would be met
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