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While acknowledging that Virginia courts established a record in the late 1960s and 1970s for overturning local decisions and ruling in favor of developers, Mr. Congelton said these pro-growth precedents often came in response to “irrational stands (taken by local government) which bore no relation to the good of the county.”

“The pendulum has come back some

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