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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer The Rappahannock Planning Commission, in an ongoing review of the county’s zoning and subdivision ordinances, heard more suggestions on controlling the county’s future growth from Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis. At last Wednesday’s session, Davis put forward the possibility of forbidding development on prime agricultural land while also restricting subdivisons to land with less tban seven per cent slope.
Davis again proposed that a second look be given at the classification of farm land. In Rappahannock, said Davis, there are “only 10,000 acres of prime farm land, “according to the definition from so-called farm experts.” Some property included in agricultural designations is really intermediate land,
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