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enforceable, those provisions which have with stood legal challenges are used as models for other ordinances. I could find similar language to that in the proposed Rappahannock Zoning Ordinance in all other competent ordinances in Virginia. The fact that there is similar language to Fauquier’s ordinance in our proposed ordinance, modified to fit Rappahannock, should be cause for confidence, not criticism.
Third: Zoning ordinances must look to the future. The “head in the sand” attitude of “Wait until the development pressure gets here” will doom us to haphazard development, loss of our beautiful countryside, and extraordinarily high taxes. A reading of the Va. Supreme Court cases which deal with zoning quickly shows that zoning ordinances which try to control a development market that is already established will not withstand legal challenges. The Planning Director of Albemarle County told me recently in talking about the strip development on Route 29 north of Charlottesville, “We knew we had a problem ten years ago, but by then we were 10 years too late to do anything about it.”
Nearly all persons who have spoken out on this zoning ordinance matter have said that we need to change the 1973 ordinance. I believe they are correct. The present ordinance is extremely vague as to the standards to be applied to rezoning and special permit
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