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DENNIS’S honest, thoughtful silence when a citizen asked if there was any area in the country where land use restrictions had actually worked, set the tone of the meeting. Dennis admitted success had been “relative.”

George Davis was first to speak, and it was clear from his detailed praise of Rappahannock’s new zoning and subdivision ordinances—that elaborately state that land use has now become a discretionary decision of the Board of Supervisors—that he is confident of Rappahannock County’s unsuitability for development. Much of the language Davis pulled from the ordinances related to “slope.”

“In view of the terrain of Rappahannock County, you just don’t sit down

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