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Bob Eastham, on the other hand, warned that the ordinance was too restrictive, that only wealthy people could afford to buy land under minimum-acre regulations.
Eastham accused the county’s planning commission and board of supervisors of making Rappahannock County “a nursing home for the aged and suppressing the hopes of young families trying to form families.”
He urged supervisors to delay a vote “until thoroughly discussing” the proposed ordinance.
Newbill Miller of the planning commission told the audience that he “heard some new things tonight” and that “I intend to think about those things.”
Miller also said the ordinance will be reviewed at planning commission meeting Oct. 17. Supervisors meet regularly on Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. However, no timetable for voting on the ordinance was offered.
Washington attorney Frank Reynolds said the zoning ordinance which includes special exemptions and special permits “was exactly the way to go” to properly control growth. Reynolds told the group an attempt to keep out newcomers with the “wall approach won’t work,” that the county will “have to accommodate" some growth but does not “have to invite the wrong kind” of expansion.
Reynolds also said the ordinance can be viewed in two lights: as a “restriction on your own” land, and as “protection against an encroaching neighbor.”
Reynolds used the example, “there’s nothing wrong with putting a church in a residential neighborhood” except when “you have to park your car in the other guy’s driveway.”
Despite “some reservations” about the mechanics of the ordinance, Reynolds asked that the ordinance be “adopted as soon as possible.”
However, Forrest Whorton said the ordinance favors those “who have moved recently” into the county. Whorton said the ordinance prohibits small landowners from building houses and “really benefits the wealthy people.”
“There are so many more out there who are against it, I assure you,” Whorton told the audience.
On another front, Carson Johnson expressed a reservation that those expecting the ordinance to work will be
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