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Bedford resident says planning commission denied ability to build, cites road-frontage rule
Summary
At a Board of Supervisors meeting, resident Ruth Ann Sexton said the county planning commission told her she could not build on her property because it lacks required road frontage; board members said they could not resolve the matter at the meeting and offered to follow up.
Ruth Ann Sexton told the Bedford County Board of Supervisors she was blocked from building a smaller house on land she has owned and paid taxes on for more than 20 years because the Planning Commission said the parcel lacks required road frontage.
Sexton told supervisors she is 74 and cannot maintain her current home and driveway, and that repairing a washed-out driveway or dam would cost about $2,000. “I would like to build a smaller house on my property because I cannot afford to maintain everything,”…
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