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the end, the votes were not there (on the Culpeper Board of Supervisors) to defeat the Clevenger’s Comer development. So a Texas Company will be planning how at least one part of Culpeper County will be. And most of the profits will go home to Texas.
Culpeper County’s slide toward urbanization should be attributed first and foremost to their comprehensive plan and zoning ordinances that insufficiently protect the rural values of their citizens. The overwhelming majority of Culpeper citizens testified to those values in public hearing after public hearing. While the Culpeper County Comprehensive Plan does not' invite total urbanization, it does invite growth; significant growth, concentrated growth, rapid growth. It will not be long before the kind of drama . played out on our doorstep at Clevenger’s Comer is played out again on another of our doorsteps in Culpeper County, at Boston, on Rt. 522. But the next chapter will be easier for Centex, or their ilk, because of the Clevenger precedent and the more developer-friendly
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