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ANOTHER CLICHE heard often when development is the subject of conversation (“conversation” seems too mild a word; “argument” is usually more accurate) boils down to one of the other participants in the discussion summing up: “Well, if we have to have development, it must be orderly.”
Fauquier’s resident highway engineer is trying to get approval for a road plan which he feels will make allowance for orderly development of a specific section of the county. He has looked at existing subdivision plans with roads platted right up to property lines, and rightly concluded that somebody? is thinking of further development.
If that’s the case, he continued — with admirable logic — then somebody had better start as’ suming responsibility for what will ultimately take place, starting with builders who are now operating. Why shouldn’t roads be sized for ultimate use, and the builders who are creating the problems required to pay for the oversizing. Builders, understandably, don’t see it that way; they want to be able to get away with the minimums and let tomorrow (and tomorrow’s builder or tomorrow’s taxpayer) take care of itself.
“ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT”? It’s easier said than achieved.
Somehow, we can’t forget the admonition of the British planning expert who told the visiting Fauquier-Loudoun officials: “Trend planning isn’t planning at all.” □
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