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for Conservation Zones that were publicly offered at the May 21 meeting were the culmination of this thoughtful, good-faith effort of the past three years.

Though those amendments may have been flawed in some details, they proposed a large step forward in protection of Rappahannock County’s scenic mountains. Their goal was right, and their methods reasonable.

A vocal protest by a handful of landowners and land developers that was orchestrated to stop any new regulations to protect the mountains seems to have stalled or perhaps undercut the Commission’s commendable effort.

We urge Commission members not to turn

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