Has anyone driven down Route #5 in Varina recently? It is quite appalling.
Several lovely old dairy farms, including Curles Neck Farm are gone....to
developers.
Carter's Grove WILL BE some sort of a PUD or subdivision sooner or later.
The death tax caused my own family's farm in Varina to be divvied up and
sold a few years ago after the death of my grandfather. It's almost amusing
how the very folks who are so supportive of things like the euphemistically
named Estate Tax are also the ones who are so distraught when rural land,
like family farms, is  bought up by developers who are then doing what
estate tax advocates deem most evil: destroying wetlands and natural
habitats for wildlife, wreaking havoc with vast tracts of woodlands thus
creating increased sprawl or, in John Denver's famous words "more scars upon
the land".
All of this because of the supposedly egalitarian notion that the death tax
is a well deserved tax for the super rich.





----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Scott Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Carter's Grove to be sold


>I am reserving my judgment until a buyer is announced...then, and only
>then,
> can we more accurately speculate how the sale with damage, or improve, the
> interpretation of Carter's Grove, Wolstenholme Towne, etc.
>
>
>
>
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