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Editor:
I am most grateful and honored by your response to my first letter to you. Your informed reason rightly tempers my enthusiasm and I am wholly in accord with your caution that we consider very carefully the land use plan we adopt; neighboring counties have produced some very bad ones. Certainly a plan is no panacea in itself. It must be used in conjunction with other means and we can address them in future letters.
Still, we might as well consider one aspect of planning, asumptions, since we have to come up with a plan anyway. A plan must be based upon realistic assumptions, particularly in population growth, and more than one assumption should be explored.
We could assume a decline, no growth, small growth, or rapid expansion in population. I rather like the first one. Examine a proper span of years since the turn of the century and we will find Rappahannock is declining at four or five percent per year. In order to project that established trend into the future we shall be obliged to ask a few people to leave each year and I suggest we begin with the subdivider.
Or at least the speculative ones, the ones who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
On the other hand, subdivision is
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