This particular county has a name problem too.
She has a product to sell. The public wants to buy.
No wonder the government is angry. How dare they?
What did they think this was, 20th Century America?
This is the United Socialist States of the Republic.
Get out of the way, bureaucrats are playing through.
If the author had put a period after "guy" and not written the rest of this paragraph he would be totally accurate; however, the balance of the paragraph is nonsense and exposes the author as one who has little experience with real estate development. It is very difficult for developers, rich or not, to get anything approved, especially in Fauquier County. The idea that developers can "almost always get whatever they want from zoning boards" is laughable. And often the landowner's interests and the developer's interests are aligned. The land poor farmer would love to be able to sell his tract to a developer for development, but is not able to do so because of the difficulty in getting things approved. The NIMBYs are the problem, of course. I haven't followed the case mentioned in this article, but I'm guessing a disgruntled neighbor is causing the ruckus.
Here’s my story on small town zoning......
My parents house was built in 1948 2 miles esat of the small town of Newport in eastern North Carolina. My parents bought it from the builder (who had lived there) in 1952. My sister and I were raised there, and Dad passed away there.
The town of Newport provided fire department services to the area. In the 1990’s the town ran a water line out past the house. Shortly thereafter residents were allowed to tap into the water line and get “city water.” This seemed like a good thing since the ground water had so much iron rust in to that you either spent lots of money on water softening systems or everything (sinks, tubs, toilets) turned rust red.
Shortly thereafter the town moved its city limits to 1/2 mile east of my parent’s house, thereby incorporating all that area. Next, they rezoned. The house, that was my family’s residence for 50 years was rezoned “commercial.”
The upshot of this was that after my parents died, my sister or I could live there, but could not expand on the house. Neither of us live or work in the area. It could not be sold as a residence, only as commercial property. That actually brought the selling price down.
It was a beautiful house, well kept, with detached 3 car garage on a nice big lot.
Because someone is getting campaign contributions from large farmers?