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AT TWO gatherings in the past week—one in Fauquier, one in Loudoun—similar statements were made about the necessity of preserving financially-pressured farmland in this part of Piedmont Virginia.
In both Loudoun and Fauquier, it was stated that if public officials are truly concerned about saving agriculture as a viable, valuable, “industry,” then they are going to have to do something about it, other than merely talking about it. They are going to have to be bold, forthright, innovative and willing to blaze new trails. They are going to have to do something, rather than just hold more “work sessions,” commission more studies, or gather for more seminars.
Some possibiliies have been proposed. Some of them seem promising—agricultural districts, purchase of development rights, true agricultural zoning (as opposed to existing rural - residential zoning). None of these are all that revolutionary, either; some states have adopted agricultural district legislation, and in some other places public funds are actually being set aside for purchasing development rights, so that farmers can continue to farm without the financial -squeeze created by development and the soaring land values, and taxation, this means in a once rural area.
Frankly, we would have ex
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