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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“Rappahannock as we know it is gone” if the county can’t continue to exercise development controls recently held invalid by Virginia’s attorney general, maintained planning commissioner Newbill Miller last week.
In an opinion issued June 4, and released two weeks ago by Commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner, Marshall Coleman ruled that the county's residential subdivision district (RS-1) "serves only as a device for conferring legislative discretion on the county governing body where no such discretion is authorized by statute."
Under the current RS-1 regulations, a subdivision of more than five lots, anyone of which contains less than 25 acres, can’t be approved until the entire area of the proposed development is rezoned to residential subdivision. The ordinance also prohibits any resub
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