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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
On an early spring day, Grimsley Road, Route 638 in Flint Hill, is a pretty country lane, winding through shady trees and around sharp wooded curves, from Ben Venue Road to Route 729.
But over the past several months it has become a battleground of such rancor that it has split the Board of Supervisors, sent complaints to the desk of Virginia’s Gov. Mark Warner and a half dozen powerful Richmond leaders and arisen as a major test of political fairness.
The problem is paving. Under a Virginia Department of Transportation program called “Rural Rustic Roads,” VDOT has a six-year program to pave roads in the State Secondary System.
But to pave Grimsley Road, some 17 residents maintain, will ruin its rural character, open it up to more cars and high-speed driving, cause water drainage difficulties on grades, and waste the state’s valuable highway money.
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