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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock News Staff Writer At their June 7 board meeting, the county supervisors took two steps aimed at protecting Rappahannock's rural agricultural heritage. By unanimous vote, the supervisors adopted the county's first comprehensive plan, a plan which puts heavy emphasis on preserving farming and farm land from the - pressures of urban sprawl.
In another unanimous vote, the board approved C. E. Johnson's application for a 750-acre agricultural and forestal district (AFD). increasing the chances that the Johnson family farm will stay in agricultural production for its second century.
Neither the plan nor the AFD application sparked any public response at Monday's board meeting.
The comprehensive plan, developed by the Rappahannock-Rapidan
Planning District Commission working in conjunction with the county planning commissioners, was presented by John Capelle, executive director of the district body.
Capelle reported that the local planning commission met 25 times in developing the document since efforts began last September.
The comprehensive plan, he said, is predicated on "a slpw but moderate increase” in population to 7,500 by the year 2000.
The plan’s eight chapters include planning background, physical resources with emphasis on soils and slopes, 12 maps and
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