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Fauquier planners recommend approval for horse‑bedding business with delivery limits and monthly logs
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to forward a special permit allowing commercial storage and delivery of horse‑bedding at 10635 Fox Plantation Lane, with new conditions limiting deliveries, restricting hours, requiring a sworn monthly delivery log, and shortening the approval term to two years with administrative renewals.
The Fauquier County Planning Commission voted to forward a special permit for a horse‑bedding delivery business at 10635 Fox Plantation Lane in the Lee District to the Board of Supervisors with recommended conditions aimed at limiting traffic and protecting local roads.
Planning staff described the application as a category 15 special permit to continue use of a 60‑by‑40‑foot storage barn for processing and distributing sawdust and wood shavings. The operation would employ three people (two family members living on site and one off‑site employee as needed), operate Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and deliver up to 20 customer shipments per week — an increase from the prior maximum of 15.
Neighbors told the commission the private portions of Tackett Lane and surrounding roads are deteriorating under truck traffic. "They don't never bring no gravel in," Glenda Hawkins, a Tackett Lane resident, said during public comment, urging the county to require the business to help maintain the road.
In response to those concerns, the commission added and approved a condition requiring the applicant to record the date and time of all incoming and outgoing deliveries and to provide a sworn monthly delivery log to the zoning administrator. Other conditions limit storage, require that no more than two single‑axle dump trucks be stored on site overnight, restrict customer deliveries to weekdays between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and set specific hours for sawdust deliveries to the site. The commission also shortened the approval term to two years with the option for two successive two‑year administrative renewals contingent on compliance with the conditions.
The commission’s motion to forward the application to the Board of Supervisors included those amended conditions; staff flagged the project because the parcel does not meet the required frontage on a major collector or higher road, necessitating a Board finding.
The Board of Supervisors will receive the commission’s recommendation and the proposed conditions; the county will decide whether to adopt the permit and the delivery‑tracking requirement.
