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ISN’T this too often the way it is, was the rhetorical observation of a “citizen” panelist on the last day of the Piedmont Environmental Council’s fourth annual “planning conference” last week at Airlie House, the posh professional gathering place near Warrenton. After everyone else has been heard from—planners, lawyers, bureaucrats, developers, speculators, &c., &c.—then the citizens are given a tail-end place on the agenda, and told to please hurry up, because we’re way behind schedule.
She submitted that this is an upside-down approach to the problem of planning in Piedmont Virginia or anywhere in America, and, ironically, so did some of the more enlightened “professionals” who preceded her. Citizen participation is the key, said many of the most influential speakers—from a planning consultant from Great Britain to a former Governor of Ore
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