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PRINCE WILLIAM County thinks maybe it is, and that county’s engineering and planning departments are looking into the feasibility of allowing single subdivisions of parcels of a certain size, an amendment designed to encourage more building away from roadsides, back behind a hill, for instance. It’s an interesting study that might merit a wide audience. We’ll try to keep readers posted.
ANOTHER PROBLEM of “growth” in rural areas concerns sanitary facilities, septic tanks. If you can’t afford vast sewer systems — and not many country counties can — then you set up strict standards for septic systems. The stricter the better, right?
Maybe so, but look what happens, in the words of a Virginia State Health Department brochure’s questions-and-answers about septic systems: “(Q) As the area develops, isn’t the most suitable land used first? (A) Yes, contractors usually use up the best land first. (Q.) Isn’t the most suitable soil used for farming? (A.) Yes, farmers kno)v— that high, well drained land produces the best crops. Septic tanks, too, require high, well drained soils as they depend on drainage in the soil.”
We could be buried by good intentions before the bad guys even got a shot at us. □
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