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rngiy controversial issue in the next few years. It will affect you personally - particularly your pocketbook. When development takes place, your property taxes usually go up. The reason? Development attracts people. And more people require more county services, especially schools. A spiral begins. The search for more tax revenue may result in more commercial development. This brings in even more people, which means more schools and county services. And more money from your pocketbook.
The county's Comprehensive Plan says, "we the people of Rappahannock County declare it to be a scenic county..." But there is a point where development could shatter that statement. The County would then have to admit that it was just another highly taxed sprawl county.
This series of articles will look at the "size" issue. We turn to history first and zero in, right from the start, on acreage, the sizes of towns, and other evidence to show that Rappahannock County has a legacy of small communities and open space extending back hundreds of years. “Any shift to major development in the county would mark an abandonment of over 300 years of tradition.
We start way back. The settlement of Virginia first began in earnest after the "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared and the sickly Jamestown settle*>'ment of 1606 started to fade away. In 1609, the London
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