A triplet of land-use items:

Nokesville residents are not so fond of new quarries.

Neither water supply assurances nor $2 million in roadwork could convince the Nokesville Civic Association that it should welcome Vulcan Material's quarry as a new neighbor.

Vulcan Materials officials offered a few ways the company and its proposed quarries could be neighborly to the town of Nokesville at a civic association meeting Thursday.

Even so, 75 of the 79 Nokesville Civic Association members said they didn't want the quarries to come to town.

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The company has promised to give $2 million toward the widening of Va. 28.

Jake Hosen comments on balancing property rights with community rights. Personally, I'd say the community has no rights, but perhaps some needs and allowances may be granted by citizens to ease the burden of living together. Don't confuse this with a "right".

Originally, the creation of the Rural Crescent was predicted to destroy property values within its boundaries. Yet this has not happened. Property values in the crescent have risen at parity with, or faster than, the rest of the county. This means that landowners still turn a tidy profit building houses with large lots or in cluster developments, fulfilling the zoning requirements of the Rural Crescent without adding the punishing traffic and tax burdens to the rest of the county and the region that come with high-density developments.

A proposed rifle-range in Fauquier is opposed, at least by some 236 signatories.

We, the people of the Elk Run, Midland airport area, do not want the proposed rifle range on A.W. Patton's farm on Midland Road in Cedar Run District. It would be hostile to the entire environment of this quiet country community.

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