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Our View .
Development constraint
high on BOS’s agenda
Recent actions and statements by the Board of
Supervisors as a body and by individual Board
members should serve both to reinforce the community's understanding of their stances on development in Rappahannock and to make mockery of some "behind the scenes” efforts to replace Board members with representatives who are "more growth-control oriented." Recent actions of other County bodies too just bashes some of the mislabeling of individual members by presumably "preserve our way-of-life advocates" and presents a clear warning of caution to any who would make change for the sake thereof.
The misunderstanding of the positions of some of these individuals by "conservation-minded" citizens is frightening, and the impact of such replacement efforts could well move Rappahannock County off the strictlycontrolled development track that it has followed for forty years or more into a never-never land from which we would not return.
Being a member of a conservation group does not guarantee that the bearer of such a membership card has the wisdom to discern the difference between an elected or appointed official’s real position and labeled position. Being a newer member of the community does not guarantee that he or she is more enlightened than the old guard or more cognizant of the value of pure air and untrammeled viewsheds.
Rappahannock County is Rappahannock County only because of the incredible, unbelievable, foresight and * actions of, some of the old guard. Rappahannock County will remain so only if we listen to them, understand what they have done, and pattern our preservationmindedness after the effective and proven approaches that they have taken.
As Board of Supervisors' Chairman Pete Estes said during a recent discussion on development in the County,"... in my mind, Rappahannock County is not an accident. . .a lot of thought went into it." We should all be aware of that—that those of us who came here last year, or five years ago, or twenty years ago—we did not discover Rappahannock County and we were not sent here to save it. It had already been saved, and what we are here to do is to enjoy it as it had been preserved for us and, in turn, to help preserve it for our children.
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