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By daphne McCullough
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“The Planning Commission is right to be suspicious about what a Comprehensive Plan has done in other counties,” Washington resident Jim Marshall told the Rappahannock Planners at last Wednesday’s meeting.
Plans adopted in other localities have been “shot full of holes in court mostly because they were arbitrary,” he said., . _ _
Marshall maintained that if the county arrived at goals and conclusions in a logical manner, “then the courts would listen to you . . . Your responsibility is not to do a plan but to do a good one. Then that’s the tool, the only tool, that has a prayer of enabling you all to keep this county the way you want it.”
A check list for subdivision action was the only item on the Planning Commission’s short agenda last week. A report from Planner Walter Masterson on new selfcontained sewer systems sparked discussion on a comprehensive plan for the county and during discussions on the checklist, the Planners found a loophole in the ordinances.
Masterson said that a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal carried an article on experimental sewer systems that are being developed by companies including Virginia Fiber
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