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Response To
Growth Article
To the Editor:
In her article, “Is growth a threat?” (Rappahannock News, Nov. 10), Bonnie Price Lofton appears to suggest to Rappahannock County that we can have our growth and like it, too. I think her ideas call for a response.
Mrs. Loton argues for well laid out communities with small shops where folks can walk everywhere. As I understand it, the master plan for the county already allows for this kind of development in the villages.
She suggests that those who own large parcels of land should keep five acres and donate the rest to Conservation, or to public use. I suggest that if you own fifty acres in this county, you are, in effect, preserving it. And doesn’t the Shenandoah National Park provide enough public use space?
Mrs. Lofton’s plan, as presented, would zone out farmers, and surely it is Rappahannocks’ very ruralness that we respond to and benefit from.
Lastly, Mrs. Lofton calls the desire to limit growth in favor of quality of life “hypocrisy.” But it seems pretty straight-forward to me. I’d also call it responsible, realistic, and prudent. NANCY FORSYTH McBRIDE
Sperryville
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