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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The planners were urged to protect the county's country roads at a public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan last Wednesday.
• Following a two-hour open house for anyone who wanted to question members of the Planning Commission, chairman Mike Massie opened the formal public hearing.
Phil Irwin said, "I like it. There is a lot of good language in it." He noted that the plan calls for maintaining the present road system arid making improvements only for the sake of safety or county-planned growth.
"It is important that smaller road projects maintain their rural character," Mr. Irwin said.
Kathleen Maier read a statement endorsed by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection., She urged the planners to consider the roads along with air, water and soil as natural resources. "Natural resources are those gifts that are not renewable and once they are consumed or destroyed, are irreplaceable," she said. "The analogy of roads as resources may be a bit dramatic, but in these times, it seems as though we need the
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