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Our View
Putting a price
on paradise
It's budget time again for the county, and those
prone to scrutinizing the fine print of legal ads
will note the creation of the Farmland Preservation Fund, which will increase county emphasis on preserving farmland to the tune of $300,000 in the next fiscal year.
That money isn't intended to buy more cell towers, build a community center or perhaps put up bleachers around the new track at the high school.
What it is intended for is to keep Rappahannock County rolling in green by purchasing development rights from farmers that may be tempted to sell their land to a future developer or to lobby to have it rezoned into parcels that could be developed later. Bottom line, the county would like those farmers to just keep farming.
Rappahannock County hasn't jumped on the purchase of development rights bandwagon like some in the county would hope. It's a relatively new program and some of our neighboring counties, like Fauquier, have been successful in purchasing these rights ensuring that a dairy farm stays a dairy farm for future years rather than being milked into a mall.
Some monies in the county coffers would help Rappahannock in that direction.
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