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forestal or recreational land, a county, if it wants to, can encourage the continuation of the land in that use.
Certainly if farming were a very lucrative or high cash flow type of enterprise, there would probably be less justification for it than there is right now. Up to 20 percent of Virginia farmers are in severe financial difficulty according to figures I heard last week at Senator Warner and Senator Trible’s hearing in. Richmond. Within a year or two others may be in deeply severe trouble unless we get a turnaround for agricultural prices.
So if the counties want to keep open space, they’re going to have to continue a land use type of operation to relieve some of the tax burden. Some counties have removed the tax on livestock and farm machinery entirely. Others continue to tax it.
Rapp. News: This year the General Assembly considered a bill that, if passed, would have given the same status to mobile homes as to site built homes. The bill died. Do you think it will surface again? Guest: I don’t think it will come up next year. I think the people of each county should have the ability to say what they want within their county.
Certainly people need places to live. Certainly property owners should have property rights. But there’s a balance somewhere, in each locality, between the rights of the individual and the rights of society, and I think it’s better decided at the local level than it is at the state level as far as the zoning question is concerned.
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