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in its Comp Plan and its recent acceptance of scenic easements across the street.
Granting this petition will create an irreversible precedent for Rappahannock County. Other landowners with similarly zoned land and parcels, possibly as small as 96 acres, will then foe! entitled to petition and obtain from the County permission for commercial uses in agricultural zones.
The Board's action on this petition does not involve just the applicant and his supporters (most of whom appear to live outside the Valley) but. more significantly all of the adjacent area landowners who oppose it. It also involves all Rappahannock County residents, current and future, who will be affected by the precedent this decision will set.
The precedent setting effect of this decision is underscored by the fact that once one petition for commercialization/development like this one is granted, it becomes much more difficult to limit others in the future.
For all of the above reasons, and others stated by our F.T. Valley neighbors and other County residents, we urge The Board to deny this application.
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