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From Page 1 nock League for Environmental Protection “missed the boat” when not agreeing to back Nethers School’s successful eight-seminar program, Irwin tried to explain. Irwin said RLEP decided not to help the experimental school and community because the organization was busy fighting Vepco’s proposed powerline route through the county. The audience just stared at Irwin, as if waiting for more to be sajd. “It would have been better left unsaid,” commented Davis. Irwin agreed. Davis’s point was that the Virginia State Code gives to counties the power to approve and disapprove developments on the basis of the health, safety and welfare of its present citizens. The courts, even the “most conservative” U.S. Supreme Court of all in thel92(Ts, ipheld this thinking, said Davis.
Like Loudoun’s Commonwealth’s Attorney Don Devine (see the separate article on Loudoun “Controls”), Davis felt that court rulings on growth controls since the 20’s have only “fuzzed” the issue. Now the planners are all wrapped ip in developing schemes to provide for “reasonable” growth, and the courts try to decide what is “reasonableness.” As Devine said, “This is madness.”
IF A county has a policy of “non-degradation” of the environment, roads and tax base, as
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