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By James P. Gannon
Spt'rial to thf Rappahannock Nows
The Rappahannock County Planning Conunission, which normally keeps busy just reacting to proposals from citizens involving land use and zoning, is going to try to do something more ambitious—actual long-range planning.
While it might seem obvious that a planning commission would locus on planning, the fact is that this body of local government is normally preoccupied fielding proposals from local residents or businesses on specific land-use questions. But thanks to a relative lull in applications—partly due to current economic conditions—the commission wants to take a deeper look at trends that will shape Rappahannock in coming years and decades
Such a longer-range tixus may explore such issues as changing demographic trends-such as the "graying" of Rappuhannock by aging of the population—and the impact of such trends, such
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