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would be dead in Loudoun County—if not by now, at least in the next decade."
Passage Unlikely “We virtually have to sweat blood to make any significant gains in getting land use legislation through." Waddell continued. He predicted that Vickery’s bill wouldn’t pass the General Assembly in the upcoming short session, coming in the wake of concern on government spending typified by passage of California’s Proposition 13.
”1 doubt if any new tax measures will pass,” Waddell added. He concluded by describing land use planning and use value taxation as necessities, not luxuries.
Jack Hardesty, chairman of the Clarke County Supervisors and “a dairy farmer seven days a week." called for enabling legislation that would provide farmers with more permanent help than the temporary relief from use value taxation.
He agreed with the philosophy expressed in Vickery’s bill, describing it as "a step in the right direction" towards the ultimate goal of transfer of development rights on the open market.
Use value taxation and the Agriculture and Forestal Districts Act "play a big role in the preservation of farming,” acknowledged B. Powell Harrison, chairman of the board for the Warrenton based Piedmont Environmental Council.
However, he maintained that these measures were still
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