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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The RappahannockRapidan Planning District Commissioners heard chilling statistics on Washington area growth patterns at last Thursday’s Commission meeting in Culpeper.
Jane Rogers, Chief of Growth Policy Programs for the Washington Area Council of Governments (COG), told the Commissioners that the growth rate in COG’s jurisdiction had dropped by 50 per cent from the 1960’s to 1975, “That has a lot of implications for you,” she warned.
She attributed the “less than natural” population increase, currently at 40,000 per year in metropolitan Washington, to “outward migration” into the fringe counties. In gathering statistical information, she noted that both Culpeper and Fauquier were included in the fringe county category.
(Planning District Commission Executive Director John Capelle said later that he considered Orange and Rappahannock Counties to be also directly affected by Washington area growth patterns. “There’s a similar situation everywhere in the Planning District except for Madison County,” he said.)
COG studies show Washington metropolitan area fringe counties experienced a 13 per cent growth rate between 1970 and 1975, according to
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