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give our people an opportunity to review this operation when the contract runs out.”
“WE MAY have to organize our own militia,” grinned BZA chairman Josef Gardner, a retired admiral whose salty comments on landfills, the county government and bureaucrats in general enlivened the hearing process.
Foreman was adamant, although he softened his stand somewhat as the exchanges continued. “You’re taking the determination of the final product away from our control,” he complained.
“Why can’t you plan for that period of time?” M.L. Manwaring wanted to know.
“We can plan...but we can’t go off half-cocked,” protested Foreman.
“Make it short term...We could issue a permit for only one year, if we wanted to,” Manwaring insisted.
“We’re an unusual county,” Gardner told Foreman.
“Your only difference from any other county is that you want to be treated differently,” said Foreman, whose willingness to debate with the BZA members stamped him as not the usual run of State bureaucrat.
Gardner lectured Foreman on Rappahannock’s differentness: “This county bucked the railroads when they were going through all the other counties, and now
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