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now follows—allowing liveacre subdivisions away from the village centers if the developer provides streets and roads—is not “energy conserving,” according ‘ to Luke.
“Take the provision for streets and roads out of Rappahannock’s ordinances and you’ll see the population here triple in size almost overnight,” Miller argued.
PD-9 staffer Marshall interrupted to explain to the Planners that the purpose of Culpeper’s village study was to Identify growth capabilities, not to channel growth to any particular area or to implement the village concept.
Adoption of the village concept, said Planning Commission chairman H. S. Barksdale, would mean more land for five acre tracts, more people coming into the county, more demand for services and more children in schools.
“I'm not disagreeing," Luke replied, “but as the Planning Commission for this county, we’ve got to give the people some alternatives." He maintained that the people of Rappahannock, not the Planning Commission, should decide on whether to follow a village concept of attempting to channel growth.
Miller noted that the Supervisors would have to "vote an awfuUbig break" to landowners around the villages if the Board decided to allow smaller lots surrounding existing population centers.
Luke countered that the Planners should at least consider the village concept so that if asked later why they hadn’t followed this approach to directing growth,
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