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THE NEWsgot marked down in some people’s books, we’re afraid, as an old fogey against “progress” when we raised warning flags at the time Rappahannock was considering becoming a part of Planning District 9. Well, one man’s old fogey is another’s cautious conservative, and it appears that some of the things we feared about this new, unnecessary layer of officialdom are coming to pass.
Take one of the latest products of Planning District 9, for example — an inch-thick booklet, prepared at a cost of $3,000, outlining “riot control” measures for the rural counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier, Culpeper, Madison and Orange, plus the Town of Warrenton. Such a “Civil Disorder Prevention and Control Plan” is sorely needed, members of the planning commission were told with what we presume was a straight face, because this area is peculiarly susceptible to
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