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By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Ruppuhannock County Board of Supervisors will not be making a decision at its March meeting about a controversial application to use a farm in the F.T. Valley as a conference center and events venue.
Miller Farm owner James W. “Bill” Fletcher has requested that his application for a specialexception permit be continued until the supervisors meet Mav 5.
Tm looking to other avenues and also trying to fulfill all the requirements the planning commission was asking tor.” Fletcher told the RuppahanruKk News on Tuesday. “My deal is I want to make the property economical for my children. And I’m not gonna sell it or put it in easement. which l don't believe is the way togu." ,
Fletcher has said agriculture on the 800-acre property no longer produces enough revenue to pay for maintenance, taxes and renovations on the farm. He wants to lease the farm and its 8,000-square- foot manor house to an events-booking firm to make the property sustainable and keep it in the family for his children and future generations.
In January, the County Running Commission voted 4-2 to recommend that the supervisors upprove Fletcher’s application. The planners attached to the recommendation a long list of restrictions on the size and number of events, hours of operation and other conditions in an attempt to appease neighbors' concerns about the conference center.
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