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Control woes
HOW TO CONTROL “growth” is on the minds of just about every lawmaker in these parts lately .
But sometimes, it seems the best efforts of the controllers are being undone by the very regulatory laws they’re working with. It may not exactly be a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, but some of the conflicts do make you wonder.
Take “strip” or “ribbon” development, for instance. Almost everyone deplores it. A countryside spoiled by rows of little ticky-tacky houses, “running up and down every road,” is the specter usually conjured up. Horrible! Something to be avoided, right?
Wrong, that is, if you follow most county ordinances. Fauquier county, for instance, is extremely strict that certain minimums of state-maintained road frontage be available before any building site is approved. According to one county official, this requirement is the subject of more requests for zoning variances than any other provision in the site plan laws. But is what was intended as a sensible control over development actually something which promotes ribbons of housing, “up and down every road?”
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