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The existing ordinance has worked in the last several years because of economic circumstance, good fortune and the fact that a large majority of Rappahannock’s citizens want the county and its people protected.
The existing ordinance has done its job. It should be thanked and retired. The proposed zoning ordinance—with revisions that will come from community meetings—is needed to protect the people and our county for the next decade.
• The ’73 Ordinance cannot be revised. When the Planning Commission first began the study as to what kind of zoning document Rappahannock needed for the future, I sincerely believed that the 1973 Ordinance should be upgraded.
We tried for some time to do this when Col. Luke was on the Board of Supervisors and George Davis was commonwealth attorney. A line-by-line approach was started and it just did not work. We kept finding legal holes and incomplete planning. The Planning Commission did not make any progress on a revised or a new ordinance.
• Zoning law is a very specialized field. The more experience you get, the more you realize that professional help is necessary.
In the past, Rappahannock used professional help: Rosser Payne, a professional planner from Fauquier county who taught planning at the University of Virginia, and a zoning attorney from Fairfax helped with previous ordinances.
We interviewed several professional planners this time. All were unsatisfactory or too expensive.
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