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The growth question
THERE’S AN INTERESTING example over in Fauquier County of how development pressures can affect everybody that should be regarded with . interest by everyone who cherishes Rappahannock and what it stands for. People in Fauquier are at odds over a proposed super highway, 1-66, and especially about the great number of interchanges projected for that road over a relatively short stretch of what is now cattle and horse country.
People are out circulating petitions for and against the interchanges—but not especially, against the highway—and one pro-highway petitioner put his case rather plaintively, and in a manner that has been heard often from proponents of this particular brand of “progress.” He wants to see developinent which will bring such things as restaurants, so he can buy a cup of coffee locally (in Marshall, the desire commodity, according to testimony at a public hearing, was a pizza; in Warrenton, it’s “something to do”). He named some more supposed amenities of life in a larger community, but the cup of coffee summed up his argument.
Unfortunately, the cup of coffee argument also illustrates what’s wrong with an interstate highway, or anything which . threatens to promote large-scale, fast development. It’s not the highway itself, or a specific factory of subdivision, that create so many problems, is the impetus they give to pressures for total transformation of this beautiful land into just another drab version of dreary suburbia.
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