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ARE regional planning district commissions just another piece of expensive red tape? Representatives to the Rappahannock-Rapidan (Region 9) Planning District Commission expressed a mixture of anger and dismay at last Thursday’s meeting in Culpeper. Some members felt they had been misled in the reasons given for joining the Planning District Commission.
“I thought a county couldn’t get (federal and state) funds without joining,” said Fauquier Supervisor John B. Adams.
“These renegades are getting all the grants,” added Rappahannock Supervisor Pete Luke.
And on a similar ^ tangent, Fauquier Planning Engineer Richard McNear, who serves as chairman of the Commission, complained that without monetary participation in the district by Culpeper and Madison Counties, the Commission won’t have enough money for regional planning.
FAUQUIER, Rappahannock, Warrenton and Orange are members of the Commission. When the Planning Districts were designated by the state a few years ago, county officials were told that they would not receive state and federal funds for sewers, mental health, and the like without joining. The Commissions would also be good for coordinating local and regional planning, it was stated.
But it hasn’t quite turned out like that. The “renegades”—Madison, Culpeper, and the Town of Culpeper—are getting grants;
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