people.” Kranich said that unless steps were taken to

people.” Kranich said that unless steps were taken to prevent it, “It will get worse and worse and we’re going to become another Fairfax out here.”

That remark brought laughter and cries of “dirty Word” from Valley residents.

As the meeting drew to a close, Margaret Vanderhye, a commission member and private research consultant, asked, “Who designates the areas and determines that your area does not grow, that your area is seperate economically? These are not easy things that we are dealing with.

“You talk about using regional entities but we don’t give them a powerful target. Maybe the regional entities that we’ve got right now aren’t correct at all. Maybe we need to throw them away and do something different.

“But we do need to be looking, I think, at how the decisions . . . and where the decisions are made and how they come to be made.

“Whose rights will be trampelled on? And who will be the one to decide if we’ll levy a tax? Is it a state tax, a local tax. Who’s the person that’s going to levy a tax and then stand up for election?

“I bring this out because the comments I’ve heard here tonight, I’ve heard elsewhere and just so you know the complexities we’re dealing with, these are the kinds of questions that we ask ourselves, so we ask them back at you. ”

That brought a reply from Orange County Supervisor Arlene Baker, who said, “Well, I would like to see comprehensive plans carry the weight of law because even on the local level, they are trampelled upon, ignored. Political mischief is done in the name of anything but good planning.”

Host of the meeting, Northern Virginia 4-H Educational Center Director Lee Capps, closed the evening by saying, “The enlightened growth scenario is a mixed scenario,” and held the 4-H complex up as a successful example of such a mixed planning process.