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IF LOCAL officials and citizens alike from Fauquier had attended, they might have taken to heart the same Robert Freilich’s discussion of
how an inability to meet the low and moderate income housing demand is not confined to any one location, but is nationwide. He and others at the conference noted that only true national leadership will be able to effectively deal with this problem, and that in the meantime no one should nurture collective guilt complexes about “the moral imperative to allow growth,” in some mistaken notion that uncontrolled growth will somehow be translated into more cheap housing.
Officials of Prince William (there were some bureaucrats present from that county, but no elected officials) might have learned something from the discussion about desirable types of growth, and of how simply wooing more industries and more shopping centers—in lieu of more houses and more people—isn’t necessarily the road to a lower tax rate and diminishing demands for public services.
THERE WERE all sorts of valuable lessons and experiences to be had at the Reston gathering, there for the picking and applicable to the effort to keep this area a desirable place in which to
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