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What are the consequences? Look at the counties between Rappahannock and the Big City. They once looked like Rappahannock too but are being paved over with random developments which have little regard (except when forced on them) for location of schools, drainage systems, road networks of anything other than profit.
Then what follows the subdivision? The shacks, the ramblers, the pre-fabs polka-dot the hillsides and line up along the roadsides. Services to their occupants necessitate higher taxes. Inflated value of the land pushes the property taxes even higher forcing farmers to give up; denying them even the right to pass the farm on to their children. Congestion and pollution, crime, cost of police and fire protection, noise, trash, construction eye sores, ugly signs, traffic lights all increase too. And everyone’s taxes rise to attempt to cope with these problems. The only things that diminish are wild life, fresh air, natural beauty, and healthy living. This is now beginning to happen to us. The first serious attempts to subdivide since the new zoning laws are upon us. But we are not prepared. We lack a comprehensive land use plan in Rappahannock County despite its obvious utility and the State requirement
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