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Rt. 211 is part of what the state determines as its arterial system, Mr. McCarthy explained, noting that the Virginia General Assembly has ordered the improvements — long delayed due to short money — to Rt. 211 and the rest of that system. “So whatever the county wants, the state is going to keep hammering away at it.”
Mike Massie, the Board of Supervisors’ representative to the Planning Commission, pointed out that both the existing and draft revised versions of the county’s comprehensive plan specifically call for widening Rt. 211 between Washington and Sperryville. And the plan’s designation of the Flatwoods area for future commercial growth is predicated on those improvements, he added. “If, in the comprehensive plan, the county allows for growth,' we have a chance of keeping it where ' we want it to go. But if we don’t allow it anywhere, we can’t keep it out anywhere.”
Mr. McCarthy said he shared Dr. Krebser’s concern over highways attracting unwanted residential development. But the improvements to Rt. 211 don’t entail bringing any new lanes INTO the county, and “no one is going to drive to Rappahannock because we have six more miles of four lanes,” he added.
“What is it going to do when it gets to Sperryville?” asked Mr. Cadwaleder.
The road divides at the village’s outskirts; part of the traffic will split off in the direction of Culpeper and Madison and part will continue through Sperryville and over the mountains to Luray and the Shenandoah Valley, noted Mr. Irwin.
And while plans for a by-pass were drawn some 15 years ago, the project does not now appear on any highway department binding list, concluded John McCarthy.
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