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A LETTER writer this week has raised again a question often stated in relation to land use issues. He worries that to be for wise land use, preservation of open spaces andprotection of agricultural acres, is, somehow, to be against people. “People have to live somewhere,” is the way the dilemma is often addressed. “Are you against people having an opportunity to move out to the country?” is another way the alleged “elitism” of conservationists and preservationists is criticized.
The immediate answer to these questions is obvious: If everyone moved to Rappahannock County (or Fauquier, or Loudoun or Culpeper or wherever), then there wouldn’t be any open land to preserve. Common sense indicates that somewhere along the line, too many people would add up to a ruined environment. Look at New York City and environs; look at industrialized Northern New Jersey; look at the in-close Washington, D.C., suburbs.
Another aspect of the reply to accusations that conservationists are bad neighbors is to note the fact that not everyone who moves out of the city into the suburbs or the countryside does so be
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