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“This might be the most important decision you as Supervisors make,” he told the Board. Don’t take it lightly.” Miller concluded by stating that it was up to the Supervisors to decide if Rappahannock was to remain a beautiful area or be inundated by small lot subdivisions.
Bob Dennis said he opposed the rezoning because it was "premature—It would open a legal and procedural door that would make it difficult to deny the next rezoning.” He asked the Supervisors not to grant applications simply because the landowner wants a subdivision and has hired an engineer to draw up a plan.
“I cringe when I think of a Rappahannock master plan” with a map colored in to indicate what the county will look like in the year 2000, Dennis continued. But, he added that haphazard growth with no plan resulted in a mess.
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He suggested that Rappahannock make a determination on the maximum number of children that can be handled by the existing schools, the maximum population that can be served by the current number of county police, the maximum that can be provided for without paid firemen and rescue squads, without a parks and recreation department, trash pick-up, a county landfill and sophisticated water and sewage treatment plants. “The basis of a comprehensive plan is the capital improvement and public service budget, not a map,” said Dennis. “The first responsibility of county government is to citizens who live in the county and those who already own property here that doesn’t require rezoning,” he concluded. Krebser interjected that the Supervisors could deny the rezoning on the basis of existing ordinances, without a comprehensive plan. He said that Goode's tract contained three lots with slopes greater than 14 per cent. “That alone is enough to deny the subdivision,” he claimed.
Rubber Stamp Howard Leiderman from Middleburg, stating that he had been asked to attend the hearing by Washington resident Jim Marshall, reported that he was originally from a town in California that had no comprehensive plan and had
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