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“It’ll be on the books for a while now, and then we’ll come back and take a look at it to make sure it works well for both th< preservationists and the landowners—am I thinjj^that’s possible,” Sen. Colgan said.
Rappahannock’s delegate, Jerri Wood, a Warrenton Democrat, voted fo: the bill and on March 31 wrote a lette urging Gov. Wilder to sign it into law. “M; constituents in Fauquier County, partic ularly farmers and small landowners . . . strongly favor S.B. 514.”
He said, “Rural citizens in our county feel victimized by the Department of His toric Resources, which has arbitrarily identified a vast area of our county as be ing part of a historic battlefield.”
Del. Wood contended, “S.B. 514 is not a ‘developers’ bill.’ It is simply a bill tc protect landowners, many of whom own a small amount of acreage in what has been designated as a historic battlefield. My constituents do not understand why 14,000 acres were designated for the Battle of Brandy Station when only 3,000 were designated at Gettysburg.”
Noting that only a few hundred acres are designated in Fauquier, conservations'GOV.
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