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“Then you want a benevolent dictator?” asked Irwin.
“We already have that,” replied Kramer. “He has given us dirty air. I just want to make him less mean.”
“That sounds like the Soviet Union,” argued Irwin.
This was too much for even an old conservative like Davis. He disagreed with Irwin, however. “We can’t make limits, but we have to shift. The land can support only so much. Cattle over-graze,” said Davis. “The man above me has the right to be there, but not throw his garbage at me. The best determination for controlling growth is to require land enough for each person to take care of his own sewer without polluting.”
But White argued that Davis would need planning to do this. Rappahannock does not have the controls to restrict development like Davis wants, said White.
THE COUNTY does have those controls, replied Davis, pointing to the State Code. Rappahannock has held off development because there is resistance to growth, argued Davis. “In Fauquier and Culpeper it is planned.” When a county plans, said Davis, the issue becomes clouded and politicized, then discriminatory. “The courts have never struck down a zoning case when it was based on health, safety and welfare,” continued Davis. Like nature, these controls cannot be rationalized without unlawfully helping out some special interest, said Davis.
“But if we’re not going to progress,” said Irwin, “we mustplan not to have it.”
Mrs. George Davis disagreed from the audience. “The only thing that really makes any difference is where the political muscle is,” she explained. White nodded in agreement, but he still argued that some kind of explanation or plan is needed. After all, planning is his job.—Mark Helmke
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