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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Board OKs conditional brewery rezoning

Nelson County
“After receiving approval for conditional rezoning of an adjacent parcel of land, Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton is a step closer to being able to use the land for brewery-related activities. At its meeting Jan. 14, the Nelson County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve an application from Taylor Smack, the owner of Blue Mountain Brewery, for the conditional rezoning from residential to agriculture of a 2.4-acre property that is adjacent to the existing brewery site...

‘As a piece of Blue Mountain property, it’s just not going to make a lot of sense to have it zoned [residential], no matter what,’ Smack said. He said the property potentially could be used for several things, such as landscaping, growing more hops, installing a wedding pergola, adding parking and building an events facility, but ‘it’s a little bit up in the air.’...

The next step for the brewery is to get a special-use permit for an approximately 5,000-square-foot events center, and, once that is obtained, officials can move on to the review of a major site plan. Currently, the brewery has submitted a minor ‘thin-bones’ site plan, Smack said.”
~Writes Katherine Lacaze of the Nelson County Times


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