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Attorney, had not yet spoken. “Maybe it’s my fault that I haven’t communicated...Either I haven’t been putting across my thoughts or we’re not on the same wavelength, but Rappahannock has had planning since 1962. We are one of the first counties in the state to have a complete survey of land use, types of soil, slopes and floodplain. We haven’t been using this.”
Davis thought that a comprehensive plan, in effect, meant a plan for development. “The counties to the east of us have comprehensive plans, which say here you have industry and over here you have light industry and here you have residential and here you have density residential,” Davis said. “Butif we want to preserve agriculture and practice conservation we can do nothing better than what we’ve already done. To devise a plan for development will ruin the county.”
“George has said what I’d like to say,” H. B. Wood said. “Let’s stop planning for a while and just be quiet.”
“THE EXTENSION service conducted a study and found that people in Rappahannock like things as they are,” Dick Latham said.
Pete Luke said a lot of people in the county would be surprised to know how much subdivision is occuring in the county. “I want a picture of where things are happening; I want us to be ready,” he said.
“We haven’t had many smalllot subdivisions. Our ordinances don’t allow it,” George Davis said “No county in the state has as effective controls as we do. The developers have jumped over us.”
Fanning Baumgardner said a plan is needed “to focus on what it is we’re doing. We can have a plan that will help us to explore
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