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By DEL. ANDY GUEST
R-31st
The Governor’s $22.5 billion twoyear spending package came out of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees earlier this week, wrapped up with a $100 million bow made up of legislative budget amendments. While the House of Delegates spent two hours trying to unwrap this package and the Senate scrutinized their version for more than five hours, the result was the same — Virginia is faced with an unprecedented spending spree that may well come back to haunt us.
Those of us who tried to cut down
the fat in this budget, while attempting to preserve the necessary Requests made for projects within xiur own districts, were faced with ^the decision of preserving top prioriSt>es and hoping that we wouldn’t t^oke on the fat. S' Over the next two weeks, the jftouse and Senate conferees will be ‘deliberating further on the budget, *,jpith the final proposal set for presentation toward the final days of 2jhe session. The fact remains, howSpver, that there is a time bomb tickling in this budget. Revenue ’Projections provided to us by the Administration may be far too optijjpistic.
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McCarthy says in the memo. The new category, Non-Conforming Subdivision with a density of one dwelling unit per acre and the less stringent setbacks of RV and R-2, would largely remove concerns about failing to follow the "layered” approach, he concedes. "A very explicitly worded statement of legislative intent and purpose might also
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