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A 111 »» llllllg VW 11V1^ bliv growers all I can but we’ve got to draw the line somewhere,” insisted Charles Estes, who led the push at the board’s last work session for eliminating the by-right provision for five-month migrant camps as an accessory agricultural use and persuaded his fellow board members to limit occupancy to nine months even with a permit. “We can’t help the orchardists at the expense of the rest of Rappahannock County.”
He stressed that he saw no problems with those orchardists now in the county but posed the “what if’ a big fruit operation came in five or 10 years from now, leased 500 acres and worked the land with migrant laborers. “We have to think about the rights of other people; that’s basically what zoning is all about.”
Raising apples in Rappahannock County has not been a money making business for the past several years, countered Mr. Miller. If fruit production again becomes profitable and land is kept in orchards, “it will be open space. It won’t be developed and won’t cost the county in services,” no matter who’s running the orchards, he maintained.
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