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he got from some other place.
“A part-time planner would “help protect the county’s fiscal capabilities. You don’t have any database you can get your hands on. The information’s here, but you can’t get it in reasonable time. You’ve got to have some numbers when it . comes to the time you get sued,” Col. Luke said.
He said w hen the Tow n of Washington wanted to apply for a Community Development Block Grant to help pay for improvements for the town’s water system the town couldn’t fill in the page telling how many low to moderate income residents would benefit from the improvements. “I can go down and make a good case for the Town of Washington, but I’ve got to have some numbers," he concluded.
Frank Reynolds said he wanted to give the supervisors his “personal opinion” on conditional zoning and the proffer system, two powers granted to the county by this year’s General Assembly. “It sounds like a great thing, but I ask you to either ignore the power or apply it very carefully.”
“Here’s what can happen,” Mr. Reynolds said. “A developer or a group of people could buy 1,000 acres between Amissville and Ben Venue and file an application for rezoning to R-2.” Then the developer might offer the fire department and the rescue squad each $100,000, and he might offer to give 10 acres for a community park.
“He would say this is in the public interest,” Mr. Reynolds told the board. “There’s money for the fire and rescue squads and a park, and it will give lots of jobs while the houses are being built, and all I want is R-2 zoning. This would sound like a good
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