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Would you want to live
next to a convention/conference center that includes a commercial game preserve and will host 24 outdoor events annually with a^ many as 300 people dancing to music until 10 p.m. and promotes shooting 24/7 (yes, including Sundays) from September 1 through April 30 18 months)?
That is what Bill Fletcher's neighbors on Rt. 231 in the F. T. Valley may get if his application for a special use permit is approved.
I quote a portion of section 170-52A, article VI of the Rappahannock County Ordinance that addresses special use permits “the proposed use shall be such that it will not adversely affect the use or development of neighboring properties. . .that the use will not hinder or discourage the appropriate development and/or use of adjacent or nearby land and/ or buildings or impair the value thereof’. Bill’s proposal violates all of these prohibitions.
There is already a similar special use permit application pending directly across Rt. 231 from Bill’s property. How many convention/conference centers does the County need at that location? If these commercial uses are granted, will they set the precedent for more, perhaps even more dense and troubling, uses m the future?
I fully support the right of landowners and their guests to hunt on landowner property subject to the regulations ol the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. However, there is a big difference between that kind of hunting which lasts less than two months and has no hunting on Sundays, and a feebased commercial hunting operation with a hunting season that allows hunting seven
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