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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH Rappahannock News Staff Writer Rappahannock, like other rural counties affected by metropolitan pressures, is wrestling with the problem of how to control and channel growth. Already the county has 2,210 platted lots five acres or less in size. Supervisors, Planning Commissioners and concerned citizens have all spoken out against haphazard development, inferring that iM only unplanned growth that causes problems.
At the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection’s quarterly December meeting, former Warren County Supervisor Elizabeth Malta warned against the dangers of all growth—planned or haphazard.
“I’ve had first hand experience with development and taxes,’’ said Mrs. Malta. "It’s up to the people in a locality to decide if they want growth and to know ahead of time how much it’s going to cost them.” She added that she’d been shocked during her ten years on the Warren Board at the general public’s unawareness of the price tag that development carries.
“Can any county afford development at all?” Mrs. Malta asked. To illustrate her point, she presented statistics from neighboring Warren County, just over the .mountain from Rappahannock.
Warren citizens pay local taxes at the rate of $4.20 per $100 of assessed value, ac
89.9%