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Agriculture
To the editor:
For many years, I have lived next to a migrant labor camp in Harris Hollow. In addition to this migrant labor camp facility, there are three tenant houses within several hundred feet of my property line which have been used over the years by my neighbor to house migrant workers.
I have never objected to this migrant labor housing, and actually think that it is a part of our way of life here in Rappahannock County. Orchardists have been a part of this county’s economy for many years. Agriculture is the foundation of Rappahannock County.
In light of all this, I have a hard time understanding the “crackdown” by the Board of Supervisors on the orchard industry in Rappahannock County. It seems to me that if you are going to prevent and/or restrict a farmer’s right to house people in a building that he paid to construct, and if you do away with all “by-right” agricultural housing, you are making it more difficult for the individual farmer or orchardist to stay in business.
I have been told that the zoning regulations proposed for adoption in this county are designed to preserve agriculture. Why, then, is it necessary to impose burdensome regulations on farmers? Are we in the business of preserving agriculture,
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