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Winchester Star, December 18, 2008
"Local officials want a state agency to decide the impact of the town’s new wastewater pipe if it travels through two tracts of protected land. On Jan. 22, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, a state-created land conservation organization, will consider whether the path of the proposed pipe violates any terms of the conservation easements on the two properties. "
Winchester Star, December 18, 2008
"Does the Clarke County government have the right to regulate businesses’ use of their own groundwater?
That question was the focus of a debate that has led officials to alter a proposed regulation.
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Winchester Star, December 12, 2008
"Clarke County Natural Resources Planner Alison Teetor has set out to change the behavior of county employees.
She’s hoping to cut spending on electricity, water, and heating and air conditioning by changing employees’ habits and repairing energy-related problems at county buildings.
“The ultimate goal is to save money,” Teetor said Wednesday. “The offshoot is, it’s the right thing to do.”
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Winchester Star, December 16, 2008
"The Clarke County Easement Authority is debating a potential new source of revenue.
The proposal would allow the board to take a slice of the purchase price of a property held in conservation easement.
The authority is considering a requirement that future conservation easements purchased by the county government include a stipulation that the county would get a percentage of the value of the property each time it changes hands.
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Winchester Star, December 18, 2008
"Does the Clarke County government have the right to regulate businesses’ use of their own groundwater?
That question was the focus of a debate that has led officials to alter a proposed regulation.
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Winchester Star, December 4, 2008
"Commercial property owners in Clarke County are required to water and maintain their shrubs and plants, but a change to the zoning ordinance may not allow them to do that with public water or groundwater.
The proposed regulation is meant to encourage the use of rainwater for plant irrigation, but at a briefing Tuesday, some county Planning Commission members said it may have gone one environmental step too far.
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Winchester Star, November 14, 2008
"Residents living near the site of the proposed Clarke County High School fired off a round of questions for Town Council members Thursday night.
One issue — road improvements related to building the school — was brought up repeatedly.
“Our feelings are very strong that we don’t want Mosby [Boulevard] extended,” said Sharon Strickland, president of the Battlefield Estates Civic Association.
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Clarke Times-Courier, November 17, 2008
"Grace Ritzenberg’s property is beautiful and historic.
And that’s why she took legal steps to protect it from development, she said.
Ritzenberg is one of several Clarke County residents whose land may be crossed by the town’s new sewage pipe.
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Winchester Star, November 10, 2008
"Berryville — The proposed path of the town’s new treated-sewage conveyance pipe crosses two properties held in conservation easements by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the state’s largest land trust.
A conservation easement is a voluntary agreement between a landowner and a public agency that puts permanent development restrictions on a property.
The pipe’s proposed path is one of 10 routes considered by the town for the replacement of its 100-year old, 8-inch pipe that carries treated wastewater from the Berryville Wastewater Treatment Plant to the Shenandoah River.
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Winchester Star, October 24, 2008
"Berryville resident Bob Ferrebee said that his wife, Kay, is training him not to use plastic bags for grocery shopping... Soon, however, it may not just be Ferrebee’s wife nixing the use of plastic bags.
The Clarke County Board of Supervisors included a request to allow local governments to set up legislation to regulate plastic bags in a list of priorities presented to legislators at a luncheon at the Battletown Inn on Thursday.
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Winchester Star, October 30, 2008
"The town Planning Commission has postponed a public hearing on two zoning ordinance amendments addressing the timeliness of construction projects.
One amendment is a reaction to a project known as Boyce Condos, which was given conditional approval about a year ago but needs final approval for its site plan before construction can start.
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Winchester Star, October 18, 2008
"Until now, all easements held by the Clarke County Conservation Easement Authority have been the result of private landowners wanting to protect their land from future development.
But a 200-acre site at the Holy Cross Abbey, a Cistercian monastery overlooking the Shenandoah River, may break that trend.
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