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attempting to be too specific with a plan.
"Could you draw up a comprehensive plan and say you want to keep this county rural?” asked Miller. “Would that be legal?”
Marshall replied that he wasn’t sure if the county could legally prohibit all growth but added that “you can go a long, long way in that direction and it’s legal.”
He disagreed with assertions made on previous occasions by, Rappahannock Commonwealth Attorney George Davis that the county’s ordinances and maps meet state requirements for a comprehensive plan. Marshall maintained that county ordinances neither meet the letter of requirements as stated in the law nor do they encompass major long range issues.
Designating specific areas for growth and others as permanently agricultural in a comprehensive plan will cause problems in a county as small as Rappahannock, said Miller. Telling one landowner that he has to maintain his property in farm use while allowing another to subdivide "becomes a personal thing, becomes an economic thing,” he added.
“You can’t write down on paper and tell a man what he’s got to do and what he can’t do with his land in this county,” commented Chairman Herbert Barksdale.
Marshall interjected that a designation of future residential subdivision
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