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John Capelle, executive iirector of the * Rapsahannock-Rapidan Planing District Comnission. the organization preparing the county's plan, naintained there's “an advantage to clustering lomes and leaving open ;pace.” He added that the planners might consider adding a cluster provision to the county's subdivision ordinance.
Clustering only encourages development, countered Miller. Using cluster provisions, a developer will subdivide “the good land, the agriculturally significant land, and leave the marginal land in open space.” As an example. Miller cited Fairfax County developments that were afforded extra density in exchange for keeping a certain percentage of land in open space. The developers used flood plain property that couldn’t even be built on in the first place as the necessary open space and in return, were allowed more lots on the balance of the parcel, according to Miller.
Not Enough Pressure
“I don’t think the pressure to develop in Rappahannock is significant enough for us to go to a dust# concept now. It might be valuable in five years...but now. clustering would only tend to divide up the county quicker than normal," he continued. “This is one I say is going to hang us,” Miller added.
Planner and supervisor chairman E. P. Luke argued that the large lot 50-acre
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