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I m concerned it could bring us more problems than it would solve,” said Mr. Darby, citing a U.Va. study indicating that the Dillon Rule did not keep localities from being as powerful as they are in other states without the rule.
The candidate would vote in favor of elected school boards, but w'ould not necessarily try to get Rappahannock, Fauquier or Warren included as special exceptions under current law as counties permitted to elect their boards.
On the subject of land use and development controls, Mr. Darby said he looks for a middle ground between competing interests. He favors some checks on development while at the same time saying “developers and builders have a legitimate right to pursue their business.”
He added that environmentalists in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Warren too have a “legitimate interest” in preserving the area’s considerable natural resources.
But the candidate doesn’t see it as a “good guys vs. bad guys question” (his words), rather as “competing interests.”
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