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uncontrolled growth, and of the need finally to draw expandable growth lines around their towns and villages against the spread of subdivisions across disappearing open land.
New arrivals here come because the area is beautiful and easily accessible from Washington. Many no longer come here for the foxhunting and social life, and may be only vaguely aware of the continued hard work it has taken over the centuries to preserve the beauty, wildlife and the efforts of earlier arrivals to conserve the countryside they have chosen to make their home.
This generation, including those who have fled here from the ruined living fabric of other places, has learned of both the visual loss of rural sprawl and the heavy stiff prices in taxes and livability of now carving out roads, sewer systems and housing lots across the woodlands and fields of such sensitive areas as northern Fauquier and western Loudoun.
Experience elsewhere has in similar places elsewhere taught that we can economically grow best by marketing our rural beauty as a destination for visitors — while encouraging growth of new business, new homes and jobs within the greenbelts around each town and village. Fauquier County has become a national model of this.
Forging our character
Over the centuries, these fields, hills and woodlands have helped form our veiy character as a people and shaped the creation of our towns and villages. It is the main reason so many have come here to make their home, and why so few ever want to leave. It has all four seasons. It is the best.
Something will have gone out of us as a peo
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