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“IF THIS county had only three predominant soil types, this scale would be okay,” Miller said. But Rappahannock has so many variations of slopes, flood plains, soil types, a map had to be large or it was no help at all, Miller thought.
Jim Marshall disagreed. For that very reason Miller had cited, he thought the maps were even more important. “They aren’t useless. You can do no better without spending tens of thousands of dollars on a computer program,” he said.
(Pete Luke said, after the meeting was adjourned and some people lingered for a closer look at the maps, that Newbill Miller was looking at the maps from a “private’s perspective” while he and other planning commissioners saw them “from general’s perspective.” The difference, Luke explained, is that “the private wants to know where his foxhole is and the general wants to see where the whole war’s going on.”)
FANNING BAUMGARDNER told Jim Marshall he’d thought one of the maps was supposed to include hiking and riding trails, and critical environmental areas, but none had.
Marshall said he’d look again at the contract, and if they’d agreed to put the trails and critical en
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