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Rappahannock Commonwealth Attorney George Davis had some surprise news for the Supervisors at last Thursday’s meeting—the county will not have to meet the state’s 1980 deadline for adoption of a comprehensive plan. Davis told the Board that Rappahannock already has such a plan, comprised of the county’s zoning and subdivision ordinances.
Davis recently gave this same advice to the Orange County Supervisors. According to the Orange County Review, Davis appeared at meetings there on May 10 and 31. He informed the Board that Orange County’s zoning ordinance qualified as a “land use plan’’ under guidelines established in the Virginia Code and met requirements for a comprehensive plan, necessary before the county could enact “land use” taxation.
However, Orange County Commonwealth Attorney Henry Lee Carter disagreed. According to the Review, Lee received a ruling from the Attorney General’s office that held the county must adopt a comprehensive plan before “land use” could be enacted and that the Orange zoning ordinance did not fulfill the comprehensive plan requirement.
Orange Supervisor Chairman R. Lindsay Gordon informed Davis that
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