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AT THE same time a Planning District 9 report was being released, telling of how Rappahannock is losing farmland to “non Ifarm uses” (read “housing”) at a faster rate than any other surrounding county, the mail brought a clipping telling of a similar situation in Maryland.
The little town of Burkittsville, Md., which hasn’tchanged much since the Civil War, is suddenly faced with staggering new real estate assessments and higher taxes. Why? “I think everyone agrees it’s because people are moving in here from Montgomery County,” a retired town resident was quoted as saying. “They have the money to pay the price of properties in Gaithersburg and Hagerstown and they’re coming out here with that money and finding there’s much more property around here than elsewhere.” Added another resident: “And they’ve been buying homes whatever the price is.”
At first, the “Washington Star” article noted, the inflated prices “brought smiles from the long-time residents and jokes about the ‘killings’ some (local) owners were making. They laughed about the new ‘suburbanites’ who came into their rural acres.. .But the smiles wore off and the jokes wore thin in November when the reassessment notices went out and the long-time residents found their homes reflecting
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