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Expert:
‘slow
growth’
By Gerald Ochs
Special to the Rappahannock News
Though Rappahannock County . can boast of the slowest growth and the lowest population density in the region, its Board of Supervisors and a packed gallery still listened with rapt attention to Loudoun County Supervisor James Burton's presentation, "Loudoun County; A Case Study in Unbridled Growth" on Monday night.
Burton was elected to his seat in Loudoun as one of two slow-growth advocates in 1995. He was re-elected in 1999 when Loudoun voters expressed their impatience with rampant development and its attendant costs. Voters seated a Board of Supervisors with a majority that shared the development principles of Burton.
Burton discussed the causes and impacts of what he referred to as "unbridled growth" in Loudoun County. He told his Rappahannock listeners that the approval of "numerous large residential projects" by Loudoun's Board of Supervisors in
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