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Piedmont, which includes Rappahannock, Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke, Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Greene and Albemarle counties, disagreed.
More than 60 percent of those polled said they would be willing to pay higher taxes to preserve open space and recreation opportunities and protect the state’s air, water and natural resources.
Support for legislation requiring developers to pay impact fees to help cover the increase in public services was highest in the Piedmont, with 84 percent strongly or moderately in favor of the concept.
Improving the quality of education and preserving the historic, rural and natural beauty in Virginia ranked highest among issues of personal importance.
Though 78.6 percent of Virginians surveyed rated the state’s quality of life as good or excellent, less than 35 percent ranked the state’s performance in protecting the environment as good or excellent.
“The findings of this survey are dramatic,” said Whitehouse. “They indicate clearly that Virginians are deeply concerned about growth trends in the Commonwealth, and that Virginians want more growthmanagement leadership at the state level and more growth-management authority at the local level.”
The survey results were presented to Del. Tayloe Murphy, D99th Dist., chairman of the state Commission on Population Growth and Development, and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s administration.
95.3%