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SEVEN planning maps, the first step toward Rappahannock’s comprehensive plan, were reviewed and accepted by Rappahannock’s Planning Commission members Wednesday night, September 17. The maps were drafted' by the Piedmont Environmental Council of Warrenton and were donated to the county by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection.

The maps show existing land use and development patterns, soil types, slopes, flood plains, topography, watersheds, roads, forest cover and possible future impoundment sites throughout Rappahannock County. The translucent “Mylar” maps can be overlaid on one another, to indicate, for instance, how much of the existing development is located in some of the best cropland.

Jim Marshall from the Piedmont Environmental Council brought the maps for the Planning

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