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THE LAND USE plan is part of the District’s contract with HUD, but mention a land use plan to Rappahannock Supervisor Pete Luke and he sees red—or, rather, developers. “It seems to me you’ll just be providing all the information a developer will ever need,’’ said Luke to White at the meeting last Wednesday. “If I was a speculator I’d be pushing for all these plans,’’ argued Luke, “and start buying all the land you said was OK for development.”
“But you’re planning for what you want,” replied Warrenton Town Manager Ed Brower—the “citizen” representative on the Commission from the town. “But you’re planning for development,” shot back Luke.
“The plan tells the development where to go,” explained Brower. “Well, we don’t want any,” asserted Luke, and the rest of the Commissioners laughed to avert any more discussion of the topic.
WHITE just smiled during Luke’s oratory. Luke’s belief is that too many planners and officials view land use plans as panaceas for all growth problems, commented White after the meeting. And White agrees that many land use plans have become little more than development plans. But without a land use plan, a jurisdiction would have no way to stop a developer in court, argues White. He cited Orange County, where the Circuit Court Judge practically ordered the Board of Supervisors to make a Comprehensive Plan to back up it’s zoning controls.
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