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uomprenensive nan ot Kappahannock County says that growth should occur around the villages. But what if we want to keep the villages small and we also do not want to have houses spread all over the landscape.
The fourth and last in this series of articles on towns, villages, hamlets, and open space is about an idea: creating a town in open space somewhere in the county where 1,300 people might settle over time.
This is just an idea, folks. No need to throw yourselves under a passing truck. Let’s just explore the idea calmly and maybe learn something.
One thing that has been learned over time is that automobiles and trucks do not mix well with small towns, villages, or hamlets. An experiment to solve this problem was successfully carried out over 70 years ago. The town still exists, and property values have increased markedly over time.
People who lived there originally are still there and are now in their 80s and 90s. Their children have come back to live there in their own homes, and their grandchildren are doing the same thing in their own homes.
The key to the town’s success is that everyone, school kids, the elderly, visitors, people of all ages and health condition can safely walk everywhere in the town without crossing a street. That’s hard to imagine today.
It was deliberately planned that schools, stores, recreational facilities, town services, restaurants, entertainment, would all be within easy walking distance. And you would pever encounter a roadway with a car on it. How is this possible? The key lies in the town’s design. The automobile was downgraded. It $vas not allowed to take over. ' Where is this place? Believe it or not, it is In New Jersey, about 15 miles outside of New York City. The town is called Radburn, and it is part of Fairview, N.J., which has since grown up around it in typical suburban fashion. But architects, planners, and engineers from all over the world have been going to Radburn for over 70 years to learn its secret.
The secret is that the core of the town is a 23-acre meandering park with 300-year old
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