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areas. This measure proposes that local zoning ordinances not be allowed to keep double-wide mobile homes out of areas zoned agricultural. Such restrictions are currently operating in Rappahannock and many other counties.
Proponents believe that it is unfair to restrict a source of safe and inexpensive housing so that it is not available to people in rural areas. Rappahannock’s Senator, Kevin G. Miller, recently said<that he thinks Rappahannock and other counties have gone “too far” with such zoning practices. Opponents of the bill feel that the state should not set a precedent of removing local zoning authority; that this would contradict respect for the principle of local government. Urban areas, they point out, would be allowed to continue to locally regulate siting of mobile homes. ,
Another land use bill would pnable Loudoun County to establish a program of Transferable Development Rights (TRDs). This is a county-based land conservation sys
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