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How interesting! Who would have ever guessed that the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors of Culpeper County would be more sensitive to tower-siting issues, and more responsive to complaining citizens, than the Rappahannock planners and supervisors? Don’t we usually think of Culpeper as the county where anything goes if it’s called economic development, while we smugly congratulate ourselves on how protective Rappahannock County is of its scenic beaut}' and rural character?
Well, wake up, Rappahannock. Sprint got just what it wanted from our Board of Supervisors. So did Rappahannock National Bank when it proposed a shopping center development on Route 211 just outside the town of Washington. And it didn’t matter that a lot of citizens attended public meetings objecting to both developments.
These two decisions will have lasting, major impact on the county. They undermine the county's stated goal of remaining a scenic, rural, less-developed oasis amid the desert of urban sprawl that is creeping toward us on all sides.
Does anybody care?
James P. Gannon
Castleton
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