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A master plan
THE CHAIRMAN of the Board of Supervisors, Newbill Miller, says he’d like to see the country get started on drawing up a comprehensive plan as soon as possible. So do various other public officials and ordinary citizens. For one thing, it’s a requirement under State Law for adopting land use tax relief, which Ben Forberg of the State Division of Real Estate Appraisal sees as something which will eventually have to be adopted throughout the state, “if farmers are going to survive in Virginia.”
There are things to be said both for and against drawing up so-called “master plans” for rural counties such as Rappahannock. In far too many similar places, the exercise has been one of projecting fantastic growth, on the theory that a plan must be for growth or why else plan. It would be extremely useful at this point, we think, for Rappahannock to look at a similar planning exercise not too far away.
Clarke, a small rural county threatened more than Rappahannock by encroaching suburbia but maybe not by the “second home” potential, is very close to final adoption of its first comprehensive plan. The Supervisors over there looked around very carefully before hiring a planning consultant who seemed to reflect hotter than his fellows what they had in mind, and the draft proposals of the plan have been praised as “innovative and defensible.” The word “defensible” is attached because, alas, whenever a county sets out to try to control its fate, there is always someone—some developer or some speculator—who attempts to overturn it in the courts.
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