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R Lyle Alexander said, “I feel a ** bypass would ruin Sperryville.”

Mary and James Jamieson and Pat Saltonstall suggested rather than maki ing it easier for traffic to go through the villages, the county should make it more difficult by putting in speed bumps.

Mrs. Jamieson said the county should oppose all growth. “We should keep this pocket of beauty different from the rest of the Eastern seaboard. A good percentage prefer no population growth. We should remain as we are, and the only people who come in take the place of those who die out.”

Margie White said, “The economics of Sperryville is very fragile. It is not only trucks. People and tourists would speed by the small businesses; It would be a divided ghost town in the future.”

John Ralph asked if the county could stop the bypass if VDOT wants it.

Mr. Massie said, “My opinion is if the people of Rappahannock County say they positively do not want it, it won’t happen.”

Mr. Massie noted the current Comprehensive ‘Piarv oaHs for growth to£be focused around1 villages. “How

| much do we want. What we have had ** for the past five years is 50 or 60 houses a year.”

Jay Monroe asked how the county could encourage growth around the ■ villages. “What we have now is scattershot 25-acre parcels throughout the county,” he said.

Mr. Massie noted the zoning ordinance now allows clustering so a 75acre parcel can have' two five-acre lots and one of 65 acres. “That is the best of both worlds,” -he said.

Planning Commission member Werner Krebser said the Planning Commission is now requiring those who develop in that way to put a restriction in their deeds saying the large parcel cannot be further subdivided. He said he would prfefer to require a scenic easement on the large parcel.

County Administrator John McCarthy said that the market is for