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longs with residential land use.
Health and welfare was another easy one. Again, everything - except for the time and money spent by the Health Department on inspecting and licensing commercial establishments - was allocated to residential land uses.
But for other expenditures, it was like taking a restaurant bill for 12 people and figuring out who ordered the hamburger, who ordered the chefs salad and who had the sirloin.
Under general government, Vance questioned Supervisor Hubert Gilkey III about the time the board spent considering such farm related matters as agricultural district applications. She found out from Commissioner of Revenue Merle Scoggins what percentage of her time could be charged to processing land use tax applications.
In dividing expenditures for justice and public safety, Vance quizzed the fire chiefs of the county’s five companies on the number of calls to field fires compared to the number of calls to fires at homes and businesses. She learned from Sheriff Woodward how many police hours went to protecting open land from vandalism.
Under the heading of community development, she thumbed through zoning files to get the number of permits issued for residences, for businesses and for barns or other farm structures.
Vance made a few judgments, but she maintains they had little impact since, taken together, they amounted to less than five percent of expenditures.
Vance’s work for the Piedmont Environmental Council is only the second time a study of this type has been undertaken. (The first was done by Rich Caulderon from Loudoun County’s planning department.) News of her reports on the fiscal impact of major land uses in Albemarle, Clarke, Fauquier, Culpeper, Rappahannock and Orange counties was carried by a national forestry publication.
“Since then, people from all over have written to request a copy of what I’ve done,” she said. One planner from Cape Cod even visited PEC’s Warrenton 'ffices to learn her methods first hand. “He wanted to see if our study >u i be adapted to use in their tigl o preserve undeveloped beach property in Truro,” Vance reported. “He tried it and just a few weeks ago, I got a letter from him - they won!”
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