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million for the highway study. “Without a full study of the traffic patterns around Washington, D.C., any attempt to decide on an alternative (route) is doomed to failure.”
Replying to Sirs. Watts’ assertion that the courts have blocked attempts by local government to control growth, Georgia Herbert maintained that part of the problem lies with the legislature. “The Supreme Court is often only interpreting a legislative position,” said the former Piedmont Environmental Council attorney who is now running for Fauquier’s Board of Supervisors. “You and the governor could make a difference in how local government is empowered to control, direct and steer growth,” she told Mrs. Watts. With funding taken care of last year in the first phase of the governor’s highway program, that empowerment is to be addressed in this year’s second phase, Mrs. Herbert noted. “I’d like to know what the
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