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the county would be irretrievably altered. It is a trade-off, and many residents would prefer to sacrifice the convenience of a wider road for the greater safety of a gravel road and for the spiritual gift of a closer-to-nature environment.
But the Ad Hoc Committee freely acknowledges that all this is guess work. They do not know what is in the minds of the supervisors for to date the supervisors have not shared their thoughts with the public in an open discussion. They have not been willing to put the issue of Yancey Road specifically and explicitly back on the agenda.
Yancey Road has become something of a test case for it suggests the degree to which the supervisors are really in support of one of the important goals of the County’s Comprehensive Plan. The committee feels that while some of the goals, such as encouraging agriculture, have been carefully followed the goal of preserving the character of the county by retaining some unpaved meandering narrow roads has been lost in the shuffle. A clear procedure exists for getting a road paved. No procedure seems to be in place for protecting our rural environment by removing some roads from the VDOT construction.
A few supportive letters have appeared in the Rappahannock News asking that defenders of the road-asit-is be heard. While defenders of the road do not know if they were heard, they certainly were given and took several opportunities to speak. The
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