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the means of preserving agriculture, if that’s what we want to do.”
“You’ll have to devise a way to make a profit in agriculture. In Virginia it’s traditional that people make their money elsewhere and lose it in agriculture,” Davis said.
“Maybe plan is a bad word,” Eileen Day suggested, “Maybe what we want really is a statement of intent. And the PEC maps are not a plan, we don’t have to consider that as part of a plan. That would just be showing us what we have. I think the maps would be invaluable.
“The Health Department doesn’t use the flood plain map we’ve got,” George Davis said, adding that a number of maps already exist, reflecting soil, topography and landownership, and all can be viewed by the public.
But Eileen Day thought the PEC maps were a good idea. They would be “one, neat little package” that any citizen could refer to. Gladys Havstaad thought the maps should be displayed where people could see them, perhaps at the courthouse.
PHIL IRWIN said that currently there is “no consensus (among Rappahannock citizens) on the master plan, no consensus on the zoning and subdivision ordinances, no consensus on anything.” Irwin thought that a “visual display” such as the PEC maps would provide would help the county to “present things to people in a way they can understand.” The maps
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