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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Ncwi Staff Writer
County Administrator John McCarthy said, if the county Board of Supervisors, “holds fast and maintains 1 a slow growth or no growth policy, sooner or later someone will sue, and it will be a battle royal.”
Speaking to a gathering at the county public library’s Friday Night at the Library program in October, Mr. McCarthy was responding to a question from Jim Gannon on “the likely course of development.” '
Mr. McCarthy said the county’s Zoning Ordinance “is not eternal,” and can be changed by a majority vote on the Board of Supervisors.
He said growth in the availability of jobs closer to the county makes the county more attractive as a place to live. Each decade since World War II growth and development move one counfy closer to Rappahannock, "Mr. McCarthy said.
Of the County, Mr. McCarthy said, “We don’t have the things a business wants. We have everything people want. We have to wrestle with that.”
If the people continue to elect supervisors who want to keep devejr opment out, the county will have to be prepared to show it “tried to provide for development where services are available. No one wants to move to Rappahannock to live in a town house,” he said, adding that could
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