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whether to revoke the special exception, require additional reviews, refine the conditions or waive any requirement for further reviews of the permit.
Other conditions that remained a part of the Scrutons’ permit include a limit of 12 outdoor events per year. Four of those events may have up to 300 guests and the other eight must have 200 or fewer in attendance. No more than two outdoor events may be held per month from May through October.
After the supervisors’ meeting, Lindsay, Murphy and Svatos told the Rappahannock News that they were pleased overall with the board’s decision.
“I don’t expect too many problems with the Scrutons, because I think they really care,” Lindsay said. Commercial concerns
Others at the meetings said they were worried that approving conference-center permits in Rappahannock’s agricultural districts could open the flood gates to more commercial enterprises in those areas.
“My concern is that we are in effect legislating for more outdoor music, more outdoor amplified sound than either we in the county or the market actually needs,” said Monica Worth, who fives a few miles north of Montpelier in the F.T. Valley. “The weekend is the primary time that most people here get to enjoy those outdoor experiences on their own properties and with their friends, so that’s an enormous impact even at two [events] a month.”
“This application, if you accept it, will introduce a commercial use into an agricultural district,” Bill Dobrovir said. “There is no dearth of areas in the commercial district of this county for the kind of activity that is proposed here.”
He mentioned the Blue Rock Inn on U.S. 211 and the new Rappahannock Link community center in Sperryville as examples.
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