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Capelle responded that the comprehensive plan has legal standing only in so far as it relates to and is implemented bv zoning and subdivision ordinances. ‘‘So it all falls back on zoning and subdivision ordinances,” Miller remarked as Capelle nodded his head in agreement.
The Planning District Director explained that a comprehensive plan is a general document addressing how citizens want their county to look in the future. "The specific stuff,” the controls to achieve that future ideal, are included in local ordinances, he added.
Capelle told the Rappahannock Planners that the PD9 staff, in work on Warrenton's comprehensive plan, had taken whole sections of the zoning ordinance and stuck them into the plan as “development standards.” This intermeshed and strengthened both documents, according to Capelle.
Growth Limits
Nels Parson asked if limits on growth rates, like those set in Petaluma, California, and upheld in a test before the U.S. Supreme Court, should be properly included in a zoning ordinance or in a comprehensive plan.
Capelle answered that growth limitations belong in a comprehensive plan. Then, he said, boundaries in the zoning ordinance can be drawn to accommodate only the growth rate decided
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