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armiana, open space, iorests, wetlands and mountains — Virginia’s “common wealth” — must be “protected for longer than a zoning ordinance can be defended, for longer than the eight years of an agricultural and forestal district,” Robert Dennis, president of the Piedmont Environmental Council, told an audience of government officials and citizen activists at a conference in Charlottesville Friday.
How that permanent protection can be achieved was the focus of the session, sponsored jointly by the Warrenton-based environmental group and the University of Virginia’s architectural department.
Permanent protection of fragile resources isn’t a fantasy; it’s an achievable, realistic goal, according to the conference speakers. It’s a goal being reached elsewhere through the combined efforts of local government, state government, conservation and preservation organiza
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