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hammered out revisions to the controversial amendments, requiring a public hearing and permit for outdoor recreation ventures for profit on conservation district slopes of 14 per cent and above. However, the revisions as discussed will have no effect on the Ski Corporation’s plans or permits. The Planners are expected to set a date for a joint public hearing with the Supervisors on the ordinance revisions at their January Commission meeting.
Meanwhile, Judge Carlton Penn will hear arguments pertaining to the case from the county, the Ski Corporation and the Izaak Walton League on January 10 in the Rappahannock court house.
2. Comprehensive Plan
The argument over whether or not Rappahannock County has a Comprehensive Plan officially ended in September when the Supervisors voted unanimously to ask the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission staff for help in developing such a plan.
After consulting a professional planner who worked on comprehensive plans for neighboring jurisdictions, the county Planning Commission decided to rely on PD9’s assistance. Instead of approximately $30,000 in fees to an independent planner, the county will have to contribute only a couple of thousand dollars for the PD9 effort. PD9’s executive director John Capelle expects to have proposals ready for public consideration at a series ot community meetings tentatively scheduled to begin in fall 1979 and anticipates completion of the draft comprehensive plan by January 1980.
3. Land Trade Halted
Following announcement in the May 25 edition of the Rappahannock News of a proposal to trade 312 acres of Shenandoah Park land in Rappahannock for private property in Greene County, public reaction led Park Superintendent Robert Jacobsen to withdraw plans for the exchange in July.
Although opponents of the swap raised challenges under federal and state law to the legality of the trade, Jacobsen based his decision solely on "strongly held and eloquently expressed feelings” of opposition to the proposals, according to an announcement from park offices.
Partially as a response to concerns over expansion plans raised by the cancelled
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