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likely imagined over half a million people annually traveling up the narrow winding road to Monticello. As these dramatic changes in population and technology have magnified the public consequences of private property use the public’s right to influence that use has necessarily increased as well.
In addition to the traditional limitations on the use of property, there are several important additional considerations where the private use of land is concerned. As the old Realtor’s saw goes: ‘They aren’t making any more of it.” Land is one of the least renewable resources. Each individual landowner making a choice to develop land is making a choice for many future generations as well. We can only imagine how we would feel if previous generations of landowners in the Piedmont had left us with a modem day Fairfax County landscape instead of the one which we now enjoy. And yet the collective effect of thousands of private property owner decisions being made every year in the Piedmont may indeed leave future residents here with a landscape far more like that of Fairfax than what we have known.
In addition most modem developments are substantially dependent upon the public’s investment in the things which modem day city and suburban dwellers depend upon: roads, schools, police and fire protection, libraries, sewer and water, and so forth. All of us, through local taxes, provide these necessities.
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