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By Matt Pelkey
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
At its meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Washington Town Council will consider whether to expand rules that govern what town residents can and cannot do to their property.
The town council and the Washington Planning Commission are revising Washington’s historic district ordinances, and one feature of the new version of the laws may be that nearly all significant changes to town properties will need town approval.
Currently, Washington residents must receive official approval to alter their property only if the changes can be seen from a public street — for instance, a new fence visible from the street would need approval from the Washington Architectural Review Board, but an air conditioning unit tucked behind a house would not. The debated revisions would expand the ordinances to cover changes to property regardless of whether they can be seen from a public street.
The town council touched on the hot-button issue at a Sept. 26 meeting scheduled to review a draft of the new historic district ordinances.
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