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The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) recently has completed a study on the fiscal impacts of major land uses in Rappahannock County. Whether or not you agree with PEC’s conclusions, the study is welcome because it is educational.
Using figures from the county’s 1983 fiscal year, PEC has estimated total county revenues and expenditures for three major categories of land use: 1) residential, 2) industr.ai/ commercial, and 3) farm/forest/open space (the latter we will call open space for short).
County budgets do not usually assign revenues or expenditures to specific land uses. The PEC’s purpose in doing so was to discover the net fiscal contribution or loss for which each major land use, in a sense, could be held responsible.
Probably the study’s most important claim is that open space land use subsidizes, to a large degree, residential land use. This is because residential land use generates much less in revenues than it requires in public service expenditures.
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