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Issues

The overriding issue for participants is how to protect Rappahannock from the mounting development pressures in surrounding counties, which they believe threatens its way of life, quality of community relationships, and rural culture.

• Decreasing county powers (Dillion rule and challenges to county powers)

• Sludge ruling of Supreme Court that doesn’t allow counties to ban sludge

• Unfunded mandates

• Lack of tools to stop growth and development

• Low representation in state legislature due to low population

• Inability to stop growth and encroachment from surrounding counties

• Cell towers and power

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