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(Continued from Page 1) ‘‘a very close thing.” He acknowledged that people must abide by laws but criticized ordinances which interfere with the use and sale of private property bought, paid for and taxed. Brown maintained that it's getting to the point where government control here is differentiated from government control in the U.S.S.R. only in that people are told "straight out” in Russia what they can and can't do while in the U.S., government "beats around the bush.”
"It bothers me. It ought to bother you all." he told the commissioners. “I don’t blame the board for what's going on but you all should see what it’s leading up to...The same thing that’s happening with zoning in Rappahannock County is going to bring about more trouble than we've ever seen."
Tax Revolt
He warned that individuals are going to get tired of owning land, playing taxes on it and then being told that they can't do anything with it.” Brown predicted that if this situation continues, the next 30 or 40 years will see people refusing to pay taxes.
He also maintained that sooner or later, some other land owner along Route 211 is going to apply for a commercial rezoning and if turned down, will sue the county. He added that he wasn't bothered by a denial of the rezoning application, that the construction yard was his son’s venture.
"They’re making the right decision not to start it,” Donald Brown told his father.
Noting that he too was alarmed by this country's ever growing bureaucracy. Fannon cautioned that without zoning laws, "you will see taxes in Rappahannock County that you wouldn't believe you would ever see in your lifetime."
Miller acknowledged that a fine line exists between personal property rights and the rights of government to regulate development for the good of the community as a whole. “1 wish everyone who came before this board was as reasonable as you folks," he told the Browns.
The vote w as unanimous to recommend that the supervisors deny the rezoning application.
"Mr. Brown, you've given us something to think about." chairman Herbert Barksdale concluded.
Down Zoning Approved
In other action, the commissioners gave unanimous approval to RappSki Limited's request to down zone approximately 225 acres in Harris Hollow from
77.5%