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in environmental planning, seen things good and bad elsewhere. Seems to me you might have some different views on things, that you ought to share.”
Greg had a point there, so with the idea of educating myself I attended last week’s County Planning Commission meeting. And darned if an issue didn’t come up that got me excited, a potential development of large acreage by a religious organization from Fairfax County.
Not withstanding the group’s emotional presentation, going so far as to invoke deity ordination, the commission ultimately disapproved the proposal.
Yet what got me excited was not the disapproval itself, but the single reason for voting against given by each commissiofi member in turn; i.e., inadequacy of the access road to the property in question.
I thought, “But what about the overriding issues, like environmental impact and other social costs? What about the obviously negative economic conclusions of a simple cost/benefit ratio showing that in return for sacrificing the greater public good, the county would receive virtually nothing? And what about the County’s
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