Cape Charles Mirror Report
by Wayne Creed
The Northampton Board of Supervisors met for a marathon, three hour session Monday which covered topics from future land use mapping and lot coverage limits, Town Edge and agritourism. The topic of intensive poultry farming coming to the county however, was once again front and center. With somewhat confusing and contradictory information about intensive poultry operations coming from both staff and the Board, citizens have been looking for some notice about what the future holds. Once again, there was contradictory information being passed on to citizens–on the one hand, staff claims there has been little or no contact with the poultry industry, and a few moments later, the Board informs its constituents that the industry would ‘prefer’ to build chicken houses north of Eastville, so as to avoid contaminating the breeding facility there.
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