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dandy for a teeming urban area, beset by mighty forces for change, but which would add up to a colossal case of overkill for a rural county like Rappahannock.
And, as the Commonwealth’s Attorney noted, it’s not as if Rappahannock were as completely vulnerable as many small Virginia counties—without even zoning ordinances and subdivision controls.
IT IS OUR understanding that a far more modest approach to devising a comprehensive plan for Rappahannock is now being explored. That, it appears, is what the majority vote of the Supervisors favored — not a “categorical rejection” of all planning efforts.
These so-called “master plans” are not the unmitigated blessings some avid planning advocates would have us believe, and, frankly, we’re glad to see that the Supervisors are taking a cautious attitude about wedding the county’s future to a set of colored maps and “statements of intent” that could prove, in the long run, to be something which was actually contrary to what we understand to be the overwhelming sentiment of Rappahannock County’s citizens—that, as far as possible, the county’s present beautiful, healthy, rural way of life be continued, and enhanced. □
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