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A master plan
A LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR in this issue raises again a question which has been discussed from time to time — the question of whether a Master Plan should be drawn up, and quickly, for Rappahannock County.
It’s a good question that deserves serious attention. Perhaps our county is overly vulnerable to increasing development pressures, pressures which are increasing almost daily, with only its present zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations.
But there are Master Plans and there are Master Plans, and we would hate to see Rappahannock wind up with one of those wildly growth-oriented, self-fulfilling-prophecy types of Master Plan which have been the bane of the profession until recently.
You know what we mean: A grand prediction is made that the county’s population will, say, quadruple by the year 2000, and then every bureaucrat and “booster” in the county starts working like a beaver to make sure that prediction comes true, whether it’s a desirable prediction or not.
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