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and nervous about the zoning. He is pleased because it does preserve land, but nervous because he thinks this will be challenged in the future by landowners.
Service Districts
Fauquier County has been broken into nine service districts, Calverton, Catlett, Midland, Remington, Bealton, Opal, Warrenton, New Baltimore and Marshall, with The Plains also platted as a service district.
These areas are designated to accommodate the most development for use and higher density due to having water, sewer and schools already established in those areas.
“An area needs to know where it doesn’t want to grow, but also needs to know where it can grow,” said Lee.
Lee said that it is important to keep the charm of smaller communities as Rappahannock County has done.
In these service districts, Fauqpier County offers incentives to obtain more density by allowing developers to buy development rights with a 30 percent bonus. Development rights
In order to fund a project where development rights are purchased, Fauquier County increased taxes by two pennies on the dollar as well as used roll back tax money to fund the purchase o^development rights.
CuiTently, the county pays $20,000 per dwelling unit right and writes a land easement with the county.
Lee did not feel taxpayers should fund the program, but he also knew that the county was growing and the cost per child was increasing. In public hearings that were held in Fauquier, only one person spoke against raising tax dollars to support
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