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Fletcher
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“The planning commission approved it in a way that is much more restrictive than the Scrutons’, and there’s no rational or logical basis.”
In November, the Board of Supervisors approved a special-exception permit for Roger and Sophie Scruton to operate a conference center at their historic mansion Montpelier, located across F.T. Valley Road from the Miller Farm.
“The Scrutons have 176 acres; I’m trying to protect a lot more land than that,” Fletcher said. “But I can go other ways, it’s nothing personal to me. If they don’t want it down there, I think the next best thing would be affordable housing, which would be a benefit to the whole. The county says they need it.
“It may be I give the county an option of which way they want me to go,” he added. “I’m trying to fulfill the needs of the community.”
Fletcher said his decision to continue the application is not related to litigation that his sister, Louise Fletcher Tayloe, has threatened to file against him. He said he has not received any litigation from Tayloe’s attorney, Ralph Main.
Tayloe owns 15.5 percent interest in George K. Miller Inc., which is the corporation that owns 157 acres of the Miller Farm. Fletcher owns 50.5 percent interest in the corporation.
Main told the planning commission in January that his client intends to file suit in Rappahannock County Circuit Court to dissolve the corporation and prevent Fletcher from using the land for a conference center.
Email the reporter at kallen@1imespapers.com.
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