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the land is cut up, they can do what they want to do with it. “They’re not promising to live on it forever,” he said.

As for discrimination, the ordinance is discriminatory in the first place, he said. It discriminates against those landowners who didn’t 'have their land prior to 1962. And further subdivision in Rappahannock County will mean more taxes for everybody, Wilting said.

James Scherschell told the planners to be prepared for future requests based on the Williams family precedent. “If these people have this right, I want the same,” he said.

Roger Sentz told the planners that the Williamses were “as fine a neighbors as you could hope to have.” Sentz said he hoped their request would be granted.

Clarence Dearing asked the planners if he had to come before them in order to sell or give away his land. Not to sell it or give it away, only to subdivide, he was told.

Roger Sentz told the planners they’d have to go to court if they told him he couldn’t subdivide his land. That kind of law is “just the reason I left Fairfax County,” he said.

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