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Wakefield District Supervisor Roger Welch said that anything we can do to conserve farmland is good. “The Rappahannock F armers’ Association has done a good job of informing the membership of conservation easements.” He added it is important to think about what the county will look like in 20 years, especially with visible homes on the ridge tops.
McMahon spoke about what communities have accomplished with a shared vision. He showed slides of the city of Boulder, Colo., which became concerned with ridge top development and preserved 25,000 acres around their city.
In the city of Chattanooga, Tenn. thousands of people in hundreds of meetings created a wish list for the future of that community, he said. It started with a list of their assets and they built the plan around those assets. In 1975 they planned to preserve 26,000 acres in conservation easements along 22 miles of the Tennessee River for their
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