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The moratorium
“MORATORIUMS” of one kind or another designed to control building growth — or at least provide a breather while adequate controls are devised — have become quite the thing in this area recently, and now Rappahannock County has joined the list.
We think the Board of Supervisors acted quite sensibly, especially in the light of news brought to his colleagues by Chairman J. Newbill Miller. He told them of an advertisement in a magazine which is distributed on airlines describing a development planned for Rappahannock County which could, in Miller’s words, “amount to one half of the county’s population and increase the schools by two thirds.”
That’s quite a sizeable development for Rappahannock or any county, and we hope the present ski area management doesn’t choose the same procedure for letting Rappahannock’s officials learn of anything similar they might have in mind. Something which could have such a tremendous impact on the community deserves the most careful study, and wide public participation in the form of hearings and full access to all plans and proposals. That’s the way vital public issues should always be handled.
FOR AFTER ALL, it’s one thing to have a ski area business which helps stimulate the county’s economy, and something else again to be confronted with a project which could turn the county upside <jpwn.
In the meantime, we repeat: Rappahannock’s Board of Supervisors is to be commended for ' wanting to_jnake sure, as much as they can, that their county is not inundated before adequate control measures are devised. □
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