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By JON HEDDLESTON
UATPAHANNOCK NKWS STAFF WaiTKa
“Taxes go up when you overdevelop,” Washington resident Frank Reynolds, who serves as counsel for the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), told 15 people who attended the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP) meeting last Friday.
He said that people who give up an agricultural base to lower their tax burden never realize lower taxes. Reynolds said it’s a misconception that more houses, more people, and more taxes paid lead to lower taxes, overall.
The solution to the possibility of what Reynolds called “unregulated” development leading to higher taxes: Establish the “Virginia Piedmont Preserve” in the regional, nine-county area that would put aside enough agricultural and forestal lands to ensure a market for agricultural services in the Piedmont.
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