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two weeks working on definable /lining boundaries. McNear told the commissioners that Rappahannock doesn’t have what could be defined as "a pure agricultural (zoning) district."
He suggested that the commissioners consider separating out the village and settlement areas, steep slopes and possibly prime agricultural soils and putting the rest of the county into a single rural zone. "You can do that legally." he emphasized.
In the one rural zone, land use controls could be achieved by linking slope to density. according to McNear. For example, density in the rural zone would be one house |vr acres unless the landounci could show by topographical survey that slope was below 14 per cent grade Land with
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