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In a letter to Gov. Wilder this week in support of the bill, Mr. Wood argues that Remington-area landowners “feel victimized by the Department of Historic Resources, which has arbitrarily identified a vast area of our county as being part of 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.”
Overhauling the process for historic designation, simply because a few landowners don’t like one particular Historic Resources decision, is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Have these landowners made any attempt for appeal through the courts, a system that exists for cases like these? Del. Wood also exaggerates when he says “a vast area” of Fauquier is part of the Brandy Station designation. A vast area of Culpeper, arguably, but not of Fauquier. As to the comparison with Gettysburg, not everyone involved with preserving that battlefield would say 3,000 acres are enough.
Ill-considered S.B. 514 should not have become law. We’ll be following the “majority votes” to see how they are structured. It should be interesting.
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