BoS Radically Shifts Growth Accommodation  The county has long
had a simple approach to growth: encourage it in the growth
areas, discourage it elsewhere. It ain’t perfect, but it’s
basically working. That policy got tossed out the window at last
Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Sean Tubbs writes for
Charlottesville Tomorrow. Frank Stoner plans to build a 96-house
development by the name of “Whittington,” just south of town,
but didn’t want to build a septic field to serve his houses. So
he petitioned the county to extend the county sewer system to
include his 186 acres of land, something that they’ve never done
before. County staff recommended against it because the
comprehensive plan makes quite clear that’s not permissible. The
board voted unanimously to extend the sewer system to Stoner’s.
Supervisor Duane Snow said that it’s best, because otherwise a
lot of trees would have needed to be cut down. In what’s likely
foreshadowing, supervisor Ken Boyd said: “We live in changing
times, and for us to