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BUT THERE is a problem with what is permissable for sewage in Virginia, he said. “There’s the outhouse, the septic field and a giant regional system. Not much in between.”
A.Y. Stokes and David Fannon said they could see that a restriction on breaking up farmland, such as a minimum lot size of 50 acres, might be the best way to preserve farming, but they both anticipated a lot of public opposition. “We almost got hanged when we asked for five acres,” Fannon recalled.,
Jim White noted that any developer who is willing to pay for his own sewer plant could, right now, divide up most of the farmland in Rappahannock into one and two acre lots. “And you have a lot of big landowners and a lot of absentee landowners. Somebody might be putting together the capital to do that.”
Picking up on Fannon’s comment, where he anticipated opposition to a move to restrict the breaking up of farmland, Luke said, “As the population grows and people move in here, the laws
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