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“To stop something," he said, “you have to be able to show damage to the public health, safety and welfare.” If a use occurred before the zoning ordinance was adopted, Payne noted, that use can’t be zoned out although it can be classified as non-conforming.
As a first step in drawing up a comprehensive plan, the county must undertake a complete “physical analysis,” Payne said. "Someone must go out and map every single acre of this county...It’s work and it’s expensive,” he added.
“It seems like you’re describing things that take a long time,” remarked RLEP program chairman Mitzie Young.
As Rappahannock County includes a reasonably small area and population, “you have the amount of time to do what must be done between now and 1980,” Payne responded.
Bob Dennis noted what he perceived as “inconsistencies" between state mandates and the General Assembly’s unwillingness to deal with issues put before it such as requests from counties like Loudoun and Fairfax for powers to deal with the timing of growth, with provision for services and capital facilities and with provisions for the future of agriculture in the state.
The General Assembly has failed to deal with any of these problems, said Dennis, while at the same time the Assembly has asked counties to address the same problems by 1980 "without the basic planning tools to do the job.”
20 Per Cent For Capital
Improvements
Payne replied that the State legislature is going to continue to refuse to deal with the timing of growth “as long as localities refuse to put up 20 per cent of their general funds for capital improvements.” Not more than 20 out of % counties have the capital improvement
87.6%