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Thursday’s work session agreed. (Col. Ellis Bingham, the Jackson Di.,rict representative, did not attend.)
“Impact fees are better," said Supervisor Charles Estes. “With impact fees, we get the cash we’d need to build a new school.”
Under the proffer system, “you can almost be blackmailed into approving something,” the county adminis trator acknowledged, but he added that the same thing can happen with the limited conditional zoning powers now afforded Rappahannock.
At least in the first case, the county would get some contribution from the developer toward providing an expanded public infrastructure, Mr. McCarthy noted. And with the General Assembly not expected to approve statewide impact fees this year, full conditional zoning powers (whereby local government may accept contributions for off-site improvements) might be the best that Rappahannock can get from the 1989 session, he said.
“Impact fees are the ideal way to go, but I’d hate to lose this proffer thing,” said Chairman Hubert Gilkey.
“It would be nice to have it. We don’t have to use it,” Supervisor Mike Massie pointed out.
“Suppose you’re sitting on your front porch, and you see these bad-looking guys coming up the road toward you,” said Mr. McCarthy, offering another of his “home spun analogies” to explain why the board should endorse enabling legislation for expanded conditional zoning. “There’s an old shotgun sitting behind the door. It hasn’t been fired for five years, and you don’t know if it will kill you or somebody else, but you’re going to pull it out and show it to those bad-looking guys and then hope they’ll go somewhere else and you never have to try shooting that old gun.”
The bojird was convinced, agreeing by consensus to
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