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some of the supervisors.
“If farming fails, pressures to develop will increase,” said Mr. Miller, and added he thinks if people think ordinances and plans alone will save this county from development, then they are naive. “This Comprehensive Plan should encourage agriculture in the county,” he said.
Joy Sloane said that she did research on county land which pays land use tax rates, which showed that 1,538 parcels are in land use and 75 percent of that land is lived on by landowners.
Kathleen Maier feels that people should look at where the future of agriculture is going and what the trends are. She said the county should look at a progressive agriculture program, possibly an experimental program. “People will always need good food and good soil and that is our wealth,” she said. As a board member of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP), she offered some funding from RLEP for a program. “We need to define the kinds of businesses we want here,” she said.
President of the Rappahannock Farmers’
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