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If Rappahannock and other Virginia counties don’t have a comprehensive plan by July 1, 1980, the Commonwealth won’t react violently but a community without a plan could be in an uncomfortable position, according to assistant attorney general Mason T. Jacks in remarks he made at the Virginia Airport Land Use Planning seminar at Virginia Tech on Wednesday.
“Big Brother in Richmond is not going to come hit you on your head and take away your money if you don’t have a master plan,” he said, “but if a community’s land-use decision is contested in court, that community would be in a very vulnerable position. The community’s decision may well be overturned because it didn’t have a master plan.”
Jacks response came in a question and answer session after a talk on the legal aspects of land use. He said the General Assembly passed a law in 1975 making it mandatory for communities to adapt a master plan for land use, but that many communities were not complying. “The master plan would create a harmonious pattern of development, but it doesn’t have the force of statutory law. It’s a guide, not law.”
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