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gridlocked highway, according to the Federal Highway Administration’s report.
What it will do is “enrich those who own land along the development corridor," Mr. McCarthy said. It will also hamper the land-use planning of the counties in its path as well as those jurisdictions, such as Rappahannock, which will be within a short driving distance of the new superhighway’s interchanges. he added.
“Having that highway 12 miles from our border is going to impact us in a big way,” Mr. McCarthy said, maintaining these secondary effects haven’t been recognized by the consultants. who are assessing only how the proposed beltway will accelerate planned growth.
He told the board that no consideration is being given to how it may bring unplanned and unwanted development. And he added, even the narrowly focused survey of the effects on growth are only being addressed as they affect the jurisdictions actually traversed by the highway corridor.
Rappahannock's county administrator balked at the term "bypass” for the promised highway and referred to it consistently as a beltway instead. The transportation departments of both Virginia and Maryland are "twisting and turning" to call it a bypass because neither state is going to be able to come up with the money to build it on their own, Mr. McCarthy told the supervisors. "So they must make the argument that it’s a bypass and part of the interstate system to qualify for federal funding,” he explained.
Whatever the level of state funding involved. Supervisor Mike Mas
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