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JAN MAKELA
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Clarification
Needed
To the Editor:
Your article on Developments in the March 5 Rappahannock News is an issue that merits greater debate and I am glad to see you featuring it. I was quoted in the article and I would like to clarify my position on several points.
First, I am not agreeable to a new town being built at Clevenger’s Comer and 1 was quoted as being agreeable to it. Your reporter correctly stated that I feel the town of Culpeper should be the heart of the county. I do believe some commercial services at this site are appropriate, with the least environmental impact possible.
When one developer brings you a plan for a new town on one comer of a four comer intersection, those of us living here now need to be very wary of the overall impact. There will be about 200 homes across the road behind the storage unit, where River Ridge sewage disposal plant is being built on the Rappahannock River. There are signs up on that property with a commercial, for sale message. What, we might ask, are the plans for the two other comers? It appears to me that this area could turn into a disposal nightmare for the Rappahannock. The water for consumption will be coming from wells that are yet to be reported on.
You can call it neotraditional, or a new urbanism, but put down in this pastoral area it is still a subdivision, of major impact. These concepts could be better useci in the renovation of D.C. and Fairfax. It would be really exciting if a developer would come out here with a plan for tucked away solar homes with gardens and orchards in the front yards.
The reason I did not want to join a citizens group to help plan the development are two fold. First, I was called
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