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IN THE continuing study having to do with evolving a “Master Plan” for Rappahannock County, Fauquier’s Planning Engineer Richard McNear came back to the county where he once resided to offer some sensible comments on just exactly what Rappahannock has undertaken for itself. He admitted that more often that not plans become blueprints for promoting growth, rather than “controlling” it, and that if Rappahannock wants to retain its present rural character—and every public opinion barometer indicates that this is, indeed, the local desire—then we’d better be careful.
He thought it might be possible to base a Rappahannock Plan on the exceedingly conservative “growth” projections made up for the county by state planners. This would provide a built-in rationale for maintaining tight control on “growth,” and for avoiding the type of runaway development that has so radically transformed counties to the north. It could also be helpful in coping with what could be an even more insidious local danger — so-called “second home” housing, the “weekend,” “vacation” and “retirement” variety that have created nationwide headaches for hapless communities which let them in without full realization of the consequences.
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