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As a Rappahannock County emergency
responder, resident, and property owner I was a bit dismayed to read the article in the Aug. 6 Rappahannock News about the Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Monday, and specifically the comments County Attorney Peter Luke made about the proposed ordinance requiring occupied residential and business property owners to post their street addresses on their properties.
Mr. Luke stated in the article that there is a lack of public enthusiasm for an ordinance that would put "500 or more people" out of compliance as soon as the ordinance was approved. Understandably so.
THAT is exactly the point of the proposed ordnance: Not to put people out of compliance, but to force property owners into compliance. There is not a lot of expense involved in purchasing and posting numbers at least three inches high on a contrasting background and placing the address in a prominent place at the entrance to the property, or on the property itself if the numbers can be clearly read from the road
There are numerous properties in Rappahannock County today which are in compliance with a standard of at least 3" numbers well-posted on a contrasting background And there are a lot of properties in the county which are either not posted at all, or the numbers are illegible or placed in such a way that they cannot be seen from a dis
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