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Excuse me, but the emperor
has no clothes! Do you remember that child’s tale wherein only the little girl saw the truth, much as the initiated, the unsophisticated, the apolitical do today. Sometimes when you walk into something cold, you see much clearer than they who have focussed on the business at hand overtime.
It is not that you are smarter; it is that you see it just as it is with no translation, no legal slant, no politician’s intent, if you please. So it is with the Code of Virginia 1994, wherein it is stated that the business of Virginia is agriculture; and in support of this prime business it further states that no agricultural district or county may impose a license to conduct the business of producing agriculture.
When the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors adopted the down-zoning law, rule, whatever you want to call it — the practice of down-zoning every business and structure back to agricultural usage in the event the business was abandoned or burned, etc.; then Rappahannock County became exclusively an agricultural district wherein the zon
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