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BYDONAUDETTE
Rappahannock News Special Writer
A good turnout for any meeting in Rappahannock County is 30-35 people.
About five times that many filled the Amissville Fire Hall last Friday evening for a public forum on “Saving Rappahannock County from Urban Sprawl.”
At the meeting, three recognized speakers in the battle against sprawl provided specific advice.
Ed Risse, a leading authority on land use and community planning, emphasized the need to concentrate growth in the villages. By limiting new infrastructure, such as sewer and water systems, roads, you can save the countryside. Otherwise: “If you build it, they will come.”
Villages have to provide jobs, housing, services, recreation, and they have to place a high priority on i quality of life.
Mr. Risse described some myths that have fostered sprawl over the past 50 years. For instance, “everyone wants to live in a big house on a big lot,” “the development of open land in outlying areas is inevitable because the
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