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counties became undesirable to live in,” he added.
Plavnick advised that before any work is done on a comprehensive plan, county citizens and local government must join together to determine the goals to be included in the plan.
Miller countered that polls taken over the last few years in Rappahannock show “70 per cent want to stay as we are...Now everybody tells us we can’t.”
In an effort to preserve rural character in adjoining Fauquier County, Plavnick reported that Planners there were considering mandatory clustering—“using small pieces of land (for development) so subdivisions don’t spread out all over the place.”
(Under a cluster concept, a developer planning to divide 100 acres into ten 10-acre lots
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