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agricultural and forestal land as such. He also maintained that the Water Control Act aimed at protecting surface and underground water from pollution and the Ecology Act both would support efforts to preserve agricultural land.
Rappahannock’s entire land area is approximately 177,000 acres, Davis noted. "When you take out park land, highway land and public property, we have approximately 135,000 acres for tax purposes and a lot of that has already been subdivided,” he said. There are only about 21,000 acres in the county under 14 per cent slope, Davis continued, adding that "a substantial portion of this was in isolated parcels set on plateaus and on the tops of mountains. Rappahannock County just doesn't have much land adaptable for subdivision into small lots," he main
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