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that feeling in a letter to Davy on July 31.
“Your own 2007 Virginia Outdoors Plan recommended that the county ask DCR to evaluate seven rivers for scenic designation,” Hunter wrote. “We looked at your list, picked the Jordan, and engaged in a lengthy process marshaling public support and collecting data keyed to your own evaluation criteria.”
The Jordan River Task Force spent several months recruiting opinion leaders and decision makers, holding public meetings, mailed three rounds of literature to landowners along the Jordan River, collected letters of support from community groups, wrote articles and letters to the Rappahannock News, engaged Rappahannock County High School students in data collection, ma'p making and public presentations and prepared a report for the Board of Supervisors that was shared with the DCR.
The supervisors and several county organizations also supported the effort. Representatives from the Krebser Fund, the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance, the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, RappFLOW and the Water Quality Advisory Committee wrote letters in support of scenic designation.
The DCR’s Lynn Crump exchanged e-mail messages with Hunter for several months during the process, saw the Task Force’s report and never mentioned any accessibility requirements, Hunter said. Crump also made a presentation to the supervisors at the board’s June meeting and never mentioned accessibility.
“Now we’re being tossed out of the game based on a rule that isn’t in your own rulebook,” Hunter wrote. “Specifically, the words ‘access,’ ‘accessible’ and ‘accessibility’ appear nowhere in your evaluation criteria.”
McCarthy described the rejection as “a slap in the face.”
Davy said the DCR is will
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