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JUN HEDDLESTON

1 Iwduuoct Ncwi SUIT Writer

yhard “Dick” McNear, Fauquier County planning director and consultant to Rappahannock’s Planning Commission, knows firsthand what a legally defensible zoning ordinance can do for a county.

Just two weeks ago, in Richmond, Fauquier County successfully defended the first legal challenge to its Comprehensive Plan.

The challenge began in 1981, when executors of the Dorothea L. Cutts II estate wanted to build a “neighborhood" shopping center on a 22-acre tract. The tract had been rezoned by

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