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that inattention to good land use planning by just driving south on US Route 1 out of Alexandria. Decisions about land use, including the failure to make decisions about land use, have dramatic effects that last a very long time.

Today, a vocal minority of Rappahannock’s Jackson District residents are worried about “the camel getting its nose under the tent.” The camel of course is the government and the tent is the unrestrained property rights party that the holders of real property are intoxicated with here in the hills of the western piedmont and the hollows of the Blue Ridge.

As a society, we have cast government as the evil enemy of the people. But when have the public officials of Rappahannock County ever worked against the best interests of the citizenry of this

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