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rulings of the Court effectively turned a comprehensive plan into a tool that “a land developer can use to get what he wants but not something that local government can use to control growth," Baumgardner said. He added that the Windmill ruling “goes a long way to establishing a comprehensive plan as a viable vehicle for achieving land use planning goals."
There's a lesson to be learned by local government from the Windmill case that contradicts the advice given just a few months ago to the county planning commissioners as they worked on Rappahannock's first comprehensive plan, Baumgardner continued. “In respect to a comprehensive plan and zoning law, local government must be very careful to be specific and to set standards," he said, acknowledging that he’d told Rappahannock’s planning commissioners to keep the county's plan as general and unspecific as possible. That was good advice under Virginia law as it was interpreted by the courts a few months ago but the Windmill decision has changed that philosophy, Baumgardner concluded.
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