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IN NOVEMBER, Greene County joined the ranks of Virginia counties which possess a “comprehensive land use plan.” There was no special to-do involved; two of the three County Supervisors listened to a 45-minute slide presentation, and then with ten silent citizens looking on, voted to adopt the plan.
Judging from what we’ve observed of such plans in several counties, it’s the standard going document for small, rural counties. It purports to “control growth,” encourage the concentration of new development around existing population centers, and “preserve the county’s rural, agricultural character.”
Sound familiar? It should, if you’ve paid any attention to such matters, not only in Rappahannock but in a large number of surrounding counties. All of these “master plans” seem to say the same thing. Is somebody going around with a stock, off-the-shelf model and merely changing the outlines and the place names for each particular county?
The sounds are pleasant. Whether these plans will ever actually be realized is something else. Again, it has been our observation that they seldom are. It is not unusual for planning maps to have only a
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