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WE ARE indebted to a neighboring publication, the “Reston Times”, for what amounts to a guest editorial this week. The following information was actually included in a front page news article in last week’s issue of the “Times,” but to our thinking, it amounts to an eyeopening editorial. Consider:
“Circuit Court Judge Burch Millsap . . . ruled that Fairfax County must show the court a plan for provision of ‘short term’ (sewage) treatment capacity by December 1, that the County has a duty to provide necessary additional treatment capacity thereafter, and that the County must report to the court every 90 days to indicate progress on providing that capacity. In the interim, should Gulf Reston feel that the County is not discharging its responsibilities, the developer may call for a court hearing at any time to point it out.”
How’s that for “controlling” development, all you fans of “orderly growth”? How’s that for an example of how much “control” can actually be exercised? And if you think that Reston’s highly touted “good planning” offsets any highhandedness that might be detected in the Virginia’s judge’s declaration that what Reston wants Reston will get, then you ought to visit the “new town” itself—with its ever-increasing housing densities—and especially note all the uncontrolled growth that the “new town” has spawned upon the neighboring countryside.
IT MIGHT also be noted that Reston’s lawyer * also represents a large, would-be developer who owns extensive acerage in Fauquier County.
We hope Rappahannock will not be the next Virginia jurisdiction to learn how really little
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