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thought it provided for growth. “Now, getting into a comprehensive plan, I’m not so sure we have to be as comprehensive as we thought on the first go-round,” he said.
“If you want to protect agriculture, and it’s hard to do, you’ll need every conceivable tool you can come up with,” McNear said.
Pete Luke and Fanning Baumgardner noted that Rappahannock’s ordinances include a good bit of information about “goals” for land use in the county. They agreed it might not be thorough enough, but said that the ordinances do include a “broad discussion” of the correction in which Rappahannock wants to go.
McNear noted that much of Rappahannock’s ordinances are based on slopes, using that to require a larger minimum lot size in steep areas. “Requiring a five-acre lot on a 14% slope and allowing a twoacre lot on a 13% slope could well be considered arbitrary,” McNear said. He also wondered how basing minimum lot size on steep slopes
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