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Would the approach controller be able to give him a special VFR
clearance? I've only ever gotten one from a tower.


The source of a SVFR clearance is the facility responsible for separation
within the surface area. That would probably be the overlying approach
control or center in the case of a VFR tower, but some VFR towers have been
delegated authority for SVFR. The tower is just relaying the SVFR clearance
as it would an IFR clearance.