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A LETTER writer this week exhorts the county to get ready to battle development pressures , and one of the things that is recommended for the county’s arsenal is a Master Plan.
We realize that master plans are required to be adopted by all Virginia Counties by 1980, but in the process of complying with state law, it would be our advice that Rappahannock consider very carefully the plan it adopts.
Often, a master plan can be a blueprint for development— not for blocking development. In Virginia, the courts have held that once an area is planned for development, then a developer must be given permission to do so. The pitfall to avoid, then, is not to over-plan for development.
Fauquier was one of the first Virginia counties to adopt a master plan. Once it was adopted, many of that county’s citizens—the ones who like the quiet, clean, rural lifestyle that was handed down to them from past centuries—leaned back and relaxed. “We’re safe now,” some said. “We’ve got a Master Plan.”
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