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News, Portsmouth add Norfolk, is a natural growth area for residential development.
Speculators were “coming across the river to buy up the highly productive type land—open fields suitable for septic tanks—putting in a dirt road, developing at little cost and then leaving town,” Turner said.
Proponents of growth argued that development brought more taxes into Isle of Wight. The supervisors, however, figured out the number of children in each new household and the cost of conveniences the new residents demanded, according to Turner. They found that residential growth generated “more taxes but also seven or eight times the debt for services,” he said.
In response to the increasing expenses caused by residential development, the supervisors placed a moratorium on “five acre farmettes,” studied the county’s zoning laws and instituted changes fo make developers "bear the expenses of making a development into an asset instead of a liability,” said.
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Farmers Turn To AFD
"Farmers were ignited by the condemnation of 70 acres—some of the best land in Isle of Wight County—for
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