Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 2 · column 1 of 3 · from the scan, no model involved
Local power
. • £T<2
HIRAM ZfGLEIT, THfe FAMILIAR state Farm Bureau official who helped Prince William, Loudoun^ and Fauquier farmers in obtaining local land use tax relief—and who served on the land use policy committee of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council—spoke some words at last Friday’s land us^e conference in Richmond that would have sounded familiar to Loudoun and Fauquier Supervisors, if they had been there to hear.
Said Zigler: “County Boards don’t know how much power they’ve got. No locality has used all the power it has.”
This is the same point made to Fauquier and Loudoun Supervisors by Robert Stipe of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, during the course of a planning workshop trip to England. Local American government officials, Stripe repeated over and over, have almost as much absolute power as English planners, with their vaunted control over development decisions—if they would but exercise it.
94.7%