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went on for the next hour and fifteen minutes he did, skipping only a few pages.
He criticized the fact that the maps included in the document use a typographical style of all lower case letters and thus the names of the villages and rivers aren't capitalized. He criticized the data for being out of date.
He criticized the fact that the plan says the county has a “sizeable agricultural base. That's incorrect,” Col. Bingham said. “Real estate is first, retail trade second, and agriculture third.” He noted that most of the land in the county is shown in the plan to be “unsuited for agriculture."
“That is the mountainsides, and most of that land is in the park,” Hampton District representative Mike Massie said.
Noting that the plan shows the percentage of people in the county between the ages of 60 and 85 had grown 18 percent between 1970 and 1980, Col. Bingham said, “There should be something in the goals to take care of these people." He said that the woman who donated the ball fields to the Amissville Ruritans had had to move out of the county when she needed to move to a nursing home.
“Are you saying that the county should build a nursing home?” Mr. McCarthy asked.
“We should allow for them, so we’d encourage someone to build one," Col. Bingham replied.
"We do allow for them," Mr. McCarthy answered.
Col. Bingham said, “There is no way agriculture can stay the predominmant base of this county. This is what the planners need to take
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