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them,” deeding the property back to the adjacent owners. If they were built up, he added, “the reasons that we came here would be largely destroyed.”
Susan Parrish, however, pointed out that “we’ve got to be realistic. We have become a suburb of D. C. All my friends’ husbands drive to D. C. every day, and none of us have been here more than five years.”
“If change is inevitable,” Bill Frizzell replied, “and people have the right to subdivide, we should make the impact as minimal as possible. That’s what the planning commission should stand for. Everybody’s concepts are going to be different, but we should minimize the future impact.”
Mr. Wickens pointed to the staggered setbacks which exist through some of the town as a source of the town’s individuality. “You never see uniform setbacks,” he said, referring to Ms. Kramer’s allusion to an English village concept. “Some buildings are right on the street, some are set way back.”
And, he added, “the villages are truly mixed use. If you have a working agricultural enterprise within the town, it tends to discourage gentrification.”
Reinhardt Lynch, however, noted that the mixed use concept has limitations. There are places in town, he said, where a commercial venture would be “a disaster.” There is money in town, he added, “but nobody wants to put their money into it.”
People suggest, Mr. Lynch said, that he buy some property in town and open a gourmet food store, for example. “I said, ‘If you can put
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