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as the landowner’s much mentioned, but not detailed plan to host Civil War Re-enactments (which usually involve vast numbers of participants over several days of activities with extra hundreds more invited as onlookers).
Little wonder that people who live in the area were upset and anxious about future property values and quality of life.
In summary, the Planning Commission process is flawed badly, opening our County to a wide variety of new land use options without recourse for those with differing or opposing viewpoints. Changes are needed to replace a “theater of the. absurd” planning process with one of reasoned deliberation so large numbers of taxpaying landowner citizens do not depart — as they did from this meeting — angry both with the Commission’s obvious lack of procedural integrity and the meeting’s wide open outcome.
KJVL Christie
Sperryville
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