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ing machines and old refrigerators piled in yards.

“That isn’t the image we want throughout the area and the state . . . better enforcement and longterm planning (is needed) to keep the image that we want to project.”

Sagar said he would support the establishment of a state recreation and conservation fund. That is one of three proposals that the commission is considering sending to the legislature.

The other two are the development of a statewide comprehensive data system and ways of establishing additional local governmental authority in conjunction with state power on these issues.

Robert Kranich, president of the Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah, said that consideration should be given to incentives to keep growth around existing population centers to prevent the spread of suburban sprawl, “A great deal of our problem is people moving out from metropolitan Washington. These are not poor people by and large and we are becoming more and more a bedroom community in the whole northern Valley here. The bottom line of your study (and the 2020 study) is that you’ve got a cluster-baby.

“But whose going to make these people cluster? Americans don’t like to cluster. . . they are still a frontier

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