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During the first “community” meeting on the county’s proposed zoning ordinance, which took place in Flint Hill Monday night, a new word was tossed into the ring. The word was mentioned late in the meeting, as though it just scrambled into someone’s head, like a lastminute thought.
The word...Education.
Education is one of those words people can start fires with. Warm, friendly fires. Like a last smoldering ember, education can be used to bring things bright and blazing again.
Nobody disagrees with a word like education. Likewise, everybody agrees that if we just had a little more of it, regardless of what we’re talking about, the world would be better off.
Would the people of Rappahannock be better off if they were better educated in the ways of zoning?
One person who has stood firmly opposed to the proposed zoning ordinance all along got up at the meeting Monday night and praised one section of the proposed document. The section praised? It’s on education. And it’s a long section, too, at the end of the ordinance. The section explains the interrelationships of boards and commissions.
Education. Isn’t it odd that in a proposed zoning document criticized by many for its length one section that increases the size of the present ordinance by one-third could be universally popular?
The problem isn’t length. It’s education.
Education also is one of those words that automatically gets people jumping on the bandwagon. Like tidy bales of hay neatly stacked, everybody just seems to fall into place when they think they’ve been educated.
Is getting educated on this proposed zoning ordinance too
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