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but we don't want to see a little Manassas,” Mr. Smet said. “We discussed two- and five-acre lots on there, but because of the lay of the land it would be hard to do and extremely expensive,” he said.

“The way this is now, I wouldn’t have any problem with it,” Jackson District representative David Fannon said. “Without the proffers I would. I’d rather see 10 10-acre lots than four two-acre lots and four 25acre lots. Until all the R-2 and R-5 is built on, why should we add more?”

But Stonewall-Hawthorn representative Sharon Pierce suggested, “The people who are going to buy 10- and 15-acre lots are people who don’t live here. They’ll be doctors and wealthy retirees. If we’re going to defend our 25-acre zoning, we’ve got to allow' growth around the villages. To me, ten-acre zoning is a bastard child.”

“It is,” Wakefield District representative Werner Krebser agreed. “Nobody can farm 10 acres. This

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