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SOMETIMES you can discover a problem you didn’t even know you had. Take the members of the Rappahannock Planning Commission, for example. While they’ve been worrying about how to keep Rappahannock County from being overrun by the type of suburban sprawl that has paved over so much of neighboring Virginia, there were 1,078 building lots being put on record.
The commissioners are indebted to a hard-working student, Eva Dahlgren, for this revelation, and as Chairman Herbert Barksdale commented, in thanking her for her valuable work, “If we can’t make sense of what you’ve given us, it will be our fault. We now know what we have...”
And what we have is a potential for almost doubling the present population of rural Rappahannock County—if all those lots were developed.
SO WHAT, somebody asks? So we’d have to provide more classroom space, more teachers, more school buses, more police protection, more building site controls, more of everything that goes into the tax bill. So we’d have another
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