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land. The government shouldn’t be involved if what a landowner does has no effect on adjacent land," Coleman said.
And when government intervention is necessary, it should be, as much as possible, local government intervention, he said.
"County government should be involved—we need to get closer to the people. Too often so many rules, regulations and red tape is produced that it prevents the public from solving its problems.”
In addition to criticizing state involvement in local land use issues, Coleman also raised the spector of the federal government extending a long arm over land use planning, a responsibility many localities are taking on somewhat reluctantly, according to the Attorney General.
Increasing federal government intervention should be a concern to every state resident and inaction “is as good as an invitation" for federal intervention, Coleman said.
Coastal areas in Virginia have been the site of federal land-use restrictions already, he said, and such control could gradually increase.
"I hope we will not see the federal government move inward from the Tidewater area to the Piedmont and our
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