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tried to run it past the unsuspecting citizenry before they could wake up and become stirred up to oppose it.
The Planners knew the people would oppose their borrowed Ordinance. That is why they met two nights before the August 15th hearing to agree on strategy for handling the “mob” which was expected to “storm the Bastille” at the hearing. And storm it they did, with a demonstration of salidarity unprecedented in this county, except, perhaps, at the Harris Hollow hearing.
But the fearful are also stubborn, 'ftiey have not eased tensions bjf gnnoundng that they are dropping the Fauquier Ordinance and 6y drafting the promised revision of the 1973 Ordi- 1 nance, designed specifically to meet the needs of Rappahannock. (Their job description in the zoning ordinance states that they have been appointed because their “knowledge and experience” qualifies them to do precisely that.)
And now the question is: Will the Planners and Supervisors renege on this implied contract with the people — that they are bound to do what the proven majority of the people want them to do? It will be proven to these appointed and elected officials where the people stand in the upcoming hearings.
It is essential, however, that at the District hearings all who are either pro or con be there and be heard, commencing next Monday, Oct. 22, at the Flint Hill Firehouse, at 7:30 p.m. Let us hope and believe that the Planners, and the Supervisees who appoint them, 1 will be guided by wbat they hear. If not, the debate ends right there and the decision as to who won this debate will be rendered at the ballot box. That is where all debates must end, in a free and democratic society.
ROBERT W. EASTHAM
Flint Hill
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