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‘Dear Editor, * I’rh glad to read that you are for the; .preservatiqn of farm land in Rappahannock County, but I am not convinced that you really are. Your editorial reminds me of the fence straddling politician who says he is for a particular issue that he knows will win him popular approval, but, he always adds, not in this particular case. Just because there are subdivisions, 25 acre ones, yes, that are also taking land out of farming, just because there was apparently no public concern when approval of them was given, does it mean that there should be no public concern now? Just because the supervisors approved these subdivisions, approved their rezonings, should that set a precedent forever more?
You also pass over pretty lightly the fact that 25 acre subdivisions require fewer services. This is certainly a very important difference. “ When more services are provided taxes go up, and when the farmer’s taxes go up, more fanners go out of farming.
Your editorial also says that since Mr. Goode’s proposed subdivision lies near the village of Flint Hill it may not be the place to stop subdivision. On the contrary, it seems to me, it is the exact place to stop it. When you have five acre lots, you do not have a village, you have suburbia. People woultl still need cars to get to the village and Flint Hill could, as a result, become the same nightmare of traffic, asphalt, by-passes and by-passes of by-passes that has shot up in every community between here and D.C. If we really 1 want to encourage Flint Hill 1 as a village, a true village, 1 where people can walk to shops, school, work, then let
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