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decide on what type of inventory maps were needed.
No Prime Farm Land Left
Miller disagreed. "I’d like to have a good long look at the maps before we get into any planning...We’re talking about basing the ordinance on the preservation of prime farm land—We don’t have any according to Davis’ statistics on the land that comprises Rappahannock County,” said Miller.
“The primary source of pressure from development will be on slopes seven per cent and steeper because that’s where 90 per cent of our land is,” Miller continued. “We’ve got to see maps before we make any plans or we’re just going to be beating our gums.”
Davis said he thought County Engineer Fanning Baumgardner would have some inventory maps ready for the Planning Commission’s study within the dext 30 days. The county already has excellent soil survey maps but the information is expressed in technical engineering terms that the average citizen can’t understand, he said. “We’ve got to have it in usable form” with the data divided into separate maps showing 1) rivers and streams 2) roads 3) topography with elevations 4) residential and subdivided land, said Davis.
“We can’t prohibit development on over seven per cent slopes because that’s where we are,” argued Miller. “It would be a complete turn around to go from protecting land with under seven per cent slopes to protecting land with over seven per cent slopes,” concluded Dave Fannon.
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