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(Continued from Page 1) would instead be required to cluster the houses on ten acres and leave the balance of the 100-acre tract in permanent open space. With an optional cluster concept, developers may be allowed slightly higher density as an inducement to cluster.) Clustering "keeps as much land as possible in productive use,” Plavnick said. The concept, he continued, becomes more attractive to farmers when they are allowed to retain ownership of the open space and use it for agricultural purposes rather than being required to deed it to a homeowner’s association or to the county. Plavnick reported that Fauquier was also working with the idea of ‘‘noncontiguous open space" that would allow a property owner to cluster development on one parcel while keeping a second parcel, that did not have to adjoin the first, in open space.
Miller acknowledged that the Rappahannock Planners were also concerned with keeping land open so it could be used for farming but he questioned whether clustering was suited to the county. "Fifty per cent or more of our land is in 14 per cent slope,” he noted. If the cluster concept was adopted here, he predicted that developers would cluster houses on the limited amount of agricultural land in the county "and leave only the mountain land in open space.”
Planner Walter Masterson added that subdivisions are
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