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mitment of this newspaper.
That smashing election mandate and the agenda Gov. Baliles has set in Richmond are unmistakable expressions of today’s public will.
There is a current agenda item in Fauquier on this, a proposal to change rural zoning for homes to one per 10 acres, rather than one per five. If the public will were tested on such a question, the candidate advocating development in 50 acre tracts would be the walkaway winner.
We have become in 1985 street savvy to what happens with rural subdivision sprawl across farmland. Someone is even apt to come up with a campaign for the future built upon surviving with WALT — Water, Air, Land and Taxes.
This generation, including those who have fled here from the ruined living fabric of other parts of the nation from Fairfax to California, has learned of the economic, visual and tax cost of rural development and the environmental price of carving out roads, sewer systems and housing lots across sensitive watershed areas such as northern Fauquier and western Loudoun, which serve as a water sponge to all of the people east of the Blue Ridge.
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