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Fh* Yean Too Late
Miller noted that the invitation from PEC to speak at the land use conference came five years too late. “Five years ago, I knew all the answers. Now I stand before you totally confused.’*
“The problem is enabling legislation,” Miller continued. "Lay people are asked to pass laws that will stand the test of the courts.” Rappahannock's days “may be numbered,” he said, with the county now in court on three different cases.
“We’re criticised for having a policy of no growth,” Miller said. “It’s not true. What people fail to realize is that a 20 lot subdivision will “significantly increase the county’s population,” he explained. “We have the potential to double our population with the existing property owners *ho are now absentee.”
Miller said that Rappahannock County wants to -emain rural, wants to 'emain beautiful, wants to -emain agricultural. Sixty to seventy per cent of the copulation shares this hope, le reported. A 40-lot sublivision would increase Rappahannock's school copulation by 50 seats—a
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