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The county’s planning commsisioners struggled with provisions for the preservation and protection of agriculture as they continued their review of Rappahannock’s comprehensive plan.
Bill Strider, executive director of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission, who is assisting in the update of the planning guide, was directed to try again for stronger language on the priority of fanning in the county’s agricultural zones.
“Just saying that it’s the preferred use in an agricultural zone - what rights does that give the preferred land use?” asked Newbill Miller. “Probably none.”
Commissioner Bob Anderson seconded the request for protection of farming from conflicts with residential land uses. As an example of the problems farmers face, Mr. Anderson, who raises beef cattle, recalleo^late night telephone call he received from an angry neighbor who demanded, “Can’t you keep that bull quiet?” Citing agriculture as tne preferred land use “is maybe about as much as we can do now,” noted Mr. Miller.
Mr. Strider suggested that the priority of agriculture might be addressed in the comprehensive plan’s chapter on future land use.
“Give it some thought,” said Mr. Miller, the Board of Supervisors’ representative on the Planning Commission. ‘If you come up with any ideas, bring them to our attention.”
“I’ll work on it some more,” Mr. Strider volunteered.
Commissioner Werner Krebser questioned the extent of the industrial zone on Route 211 as outlined in the comprehensive' plan. The area designated as highway commercial begins at the boundary of the town of Washington, he pointed out. “But that’s not what we put on the zoning map (of the recently enacted zoning ordinance), I can . guarantee you that!”
According to the new zoning map, the highway commercial
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