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directly or indirectly. “We’re not working on this thing to prevent change. We know we’re going to have change,” Barksdale stated. With a comprehensive plan, he said, change can be orderly and more of the county’s rural character can be preserved. The nation is approaching the time when "food production’s going to be right serious matter,” said Barksdale, pointing out that the U.S. is losing millions of acres of farm land annually to residential and commercial uses.
Planner Newbill Miller described the draft document as “a professional plan to suit a rural locality.” He noted again that this first comprehensive plan may include things better left out and omit things that should be included but emphasized that Jhe public must point out mistakes of omission or commission to the planning commission.
The plan itself is the work of the RappahannockRapidan Planning District Commission staff acting at the direction of the Rappahannock planning commission. John Capelle, executive director for the district commission, in his brief review of the draft, noted that no rapid population growth is envisioned in the next 20 years for Rappahannock. Projections in the plan put the county’s population in the year 2000 at between
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