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Slowly but surely the state legislators and
the governor are taking powers away from the county governments to manage their affairs. Last year the folks in Richmond eliminated an important planning tool, namely, the Special Exception process for residential development.
This session, our own Delegate Jay Katzen introduced bill 1418. That bill says that no county, city or town can adopt an ordinance which regulates (among many things) the promotion or marketing of alcoholic beverages in
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