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Land
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become interlocked with the central dynamics of eastern urban America on the edge of Greater Washington’s westward march.
Analysis
States to the north and neighboring counties such as Fairfax and Prince William are hard evidence of what happens in this fast growth lane—urban sprawl, plastic malls, and soaring demand for public services at a hard cost to the many people who live and pay taxes there (property taxes about 300 percent higher).
Planners and supervisors in these Piedmont counties, except until recently Loudoun, have shown a street savvy realization of the impact of uncontrolled growth, and of the importance of drawing real lines in the earth against the spread of rural subdivisions across their disappearing open land.
11118 generation, including those who have fled here from the ruined living fabric of other places, has learned both the visual cost of rural development
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