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By SEAN ADAMS •\rundrl N»*H*p«prni. Richmond Bureau
RICHMOND—Two Rappahannock County citizens urged a House committee last week to approve a bill that would give localities greater control over the rate and location of nonfarm development. Newbill Miller, mayor of Washington and a member of the county planning commission, told the House Counties. Cities and Towns Committee that Loudoun County's proposal is necessary “for us to really do the job of planning."
"I live in a little county at the foothills of the Blue Ridge—population 6,300," Miller told the committee, "so we don’t have Loudoun County’s problems. But we don’t want them, either."
Loudoun officials proposed the bill to allow local governments to control nonfarm development as outlined in a comprehensive plan and a capital improvements program.
Loudoun. with a population of about 57,000 has experienced rapid growth in the last decade and expects the same in the coming 10 years, and is trying to hold down the cost of services by obtaining another growthmanagement tool. Although Miller, a county realtor, said Rappahannock
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