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get us through two or three more years,” Miller said, maintaining it will be at least that long before Rappahannock is faced with an application for a major subdivision. Land use planning can’t be handled in ten year increments, as the experts propose, he said. Instead, the county should just try to get through one or two years at a time, hoping that the General Assembly will wake up someday and pass enabling legislation that will allow localities to truly control and direct growth. “If we can just hang on, fight, scratch, bite and kick until that happens, then Rappahannock County will be home free,” Miller said.
As to adopting zoning regulations of questionable legality, McNear replied, “it’s your all’s decision how far you stick your neck out.’’ He emphasized that he believed in interpreting state land use enabling legislation in the broadest possible terms so as to give a locality greater flexibility. “But you want to make sure that the baby doesn’t go out with the bath water when the bad guy shows up.”
McNear said he thought Rappahannock’s current ordinances “can basically be rewritten but in a much more legally supportable RS-1 district (with resubdivision allowed only by special exception permit).”
”1 don’t care what we call it as long as we have reasonable standards that can effectively control (resubdivision),” Miller responded.
Beginning on a long list of questions pertaining to the ordinance revisions McNear presented at last month’s meeting, commissioner Werner Krebser noted that development controls based on slope had been omitted. (Rappahannock’s current ordinance uses slope to determine minimum lot size: on slopes of zero to seven percent, minimum lot size is two acres; seven to 14 percent, five acres; about 14 percent. 25 acres.)
Slope Controls Retained
McNear replied that he brought slope into play by designating two districts, conservation for steep slopes and agricultural for flatter land. Density would be set at
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