It appeared unlikely the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors would approve a special-exception permit sought by the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam after the county planning commission unanimously recommended that the supervisors not do so.
Source/Credit: Fauquier Times
By James Ivancic | January 25, 2019
Parting words: “We wish the people of Fauquier County good luck. I wish we could have been a neighbor and get to know you. If that’s the way God wants it then it’s the will of God.”
A Muslim group that sought permission to use an area of Fauquier farmland as a site for Islamic retreats for thousands of participants has withdrawn its application.
It appeared unlikely the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors would approve a special-exception permit sought by the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam after the county planning commission unanimously recommended that the supervisors not do so.
The recommendation followed a Jan. 17 public hearing that drew more opponents than supporters of the application. Concerns focused on the additional traffic the events would generate on Meetze Road south of Warrenton. There were also concerns about noise and the number of people coming to the events.
The group needed a special-exception permit to hold one summer event for a maximum of 5,000 people and three other events drawing up to 1,000 people on 515 acres land it planned to purchase at 8721 Meetze Road.
Rafiq Sayed, who handles property matters for the Ahmadiyya Movement, informed the Fauquier County Community Development Department on Thursday that “given the outcome of the public hearing AMI has decided to withdraw the application for now and rethink our approach.”
Sayed said after the planning commission vote that “our hope was that there would be a postponement and that we would make an effort to reach out” to the community to better explain what the group was about and how it planned to use the property.
“We wish the people of Fauquier County good luck. I wish we could have been a neighbor and get to know you,” Sayed said then. “If that’s the way God wants it then it’s the will of God.”
Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com.
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