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Editor:
Let us resort again to the not uncomely practice, of 200 years age, of rising pen names to debate an issue. By this technique personalities, personal abuse, and other petty trivialities are set aside; only the issue at hand is addressed and addressed frankly.
The issue in this series of epistles, and I hope it will be a series, expressing all viewpoints, is how to maintain and improve the special rural quality of Rappahannock county while accommodating to growth pressures.
Farming is still Rappahannock’s principal business and its continuing existence is essential to our healthy and pleasant way of life. This nation must retain family farms, open space, grassland and forests to survive.
But land butchers and speculators are constantly eroding our beautiful land, denying its use to the farmer or forester, its production of needed food and fiber, and its contribution to a healthy environment. Perhaps the worst of these vultures are those who buy open space or forested land and subdivide it into five-acre atrocities, too small to farm and too big to mow.
Their argument that their “intent is to provide healthy homesites to those people who cannot afford to buy farms” is laughable. Their intent is to make money. They either have little regard for or are unaware of the conseQUences Of such dfivplnnmpnts
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