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use taxation but maintained that the greatest benefit goes to the person who owns the non-eligible house and lot. Houses in the town of Washington are selling for $100,000 not because of their magnificant architecture but because they’re located in a beautiful area. Miller said. Tourists still travel Route 211 to reach Skyline Drive even though shorter Interstate 66 has opened — spending their dollars at Rappahannock businesses along the way — because it’s a beautiful drive through this county, he maintained. “We’ve got to look at what land use taxation does for Rappahannock County... The person who owns open space subsidizes everyone else when you look at it fairly.”
Is It Fair?
Robert Settle said that "to be fair” the county must continue to allow land use both in ag districts and through a county wide program to ensure that all farmers—not just those landowners who can put together the 500 acre minimum — are eligible. If farmers can’t afford to continue farming and are forced to sell their land for development, Rappahannock’s zoning ordinances won’t withstand the pressure, he warned. “Do away with land use and you’re going to have to turn the ordinance loose and let people build on onehalf acre lots and then you’ll need more roads and two or three more schools,” Settle predicted.
On behalf of the applicants whose proposal for the East Wakefield ag district sparked the renewed debate over land use, Bob Dennis requested that farm land
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