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sisted Mr. Massie, taking exception to using individuals and their situations — rather than the conditions of the land itself — as the basis for zoning decisions. “We can’t let Mrs. Atkins build a house on one acre and then tell the fellow next door that he can’t.”
“There’s a danger of setting a precedent," added Nelson Lane. To say that the county’s minimum lot sizes penalize the less affluent is unfair, he said. “Either a person can or cannot afford to build a house,” he said, adding that the cost of the land is not a major consideration. “We have to look at the county, at the neighboring landowners. There are a lot of ramifications in what we’re talking about. We’ve got to tread carefully.”
“In large measure, Rappahannock's quality of life is the result of the large-lot way we’ve gone,” Mr. McCarthy said, noting that with smaller lots and a higher population density, the county’s tax rate would be double — even triple — what it is today.
He emphasized that his support for a settlement zone comes only if the new overlay district can be defined and regulated so that it “doesn’t do violence” to the county’s policy of “maintaining an agricultural way of life and keeping the density that’s critical to an agricultural way of life.” But Mr. McCarthy also added that “people are still having children” and will want to help those children get started in life by giving them land for a home.
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