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What a cluster: Farmers, developers, conservationists demand action from Prince William leaders on Rural Crescent

BRISTOW — Those working to protect and improve Prince William County’s rural area say it will be a campaign issue in 2019.

But it could be until 2020 before voters see policies reviewed and action is taken, they add.

More than 50 people ventured out into Thursday's snow turned to cold rain and came to the Bristow Manor Golf Club for a discussion hosted by the Prince William Committee of 100 on the county’s Rural Crescent, the land between Quantico Marine Corps Base and Manassas Battlefield National Park preserved for farming and residential development on 10-acre lots.

Labeled by county leaders for the first time in 1964 and protected in 1998, housing and commercial developers have largely been kept out of the area. But property owners, like 65-year-old dairy Farmer Dale House whose lived on his 10-acre farm his on Vint Hill Road in Prince William County his entire life, continue to push elected officials for change.

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