Talk:Orange County, Virginia/Archive 1

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Development issues - Walmart

The information about the merchant's capital tax and the property tax rate increase needs a proper citation and furthermore is irrelevant to the topic. This paragraph was deleted before for this very reason, but added back in by an anonymous user (IP address: 208.8.82.2). As an FYI, the tax hike wasn't related to Walmart, but rather to declining property values stemming from the recession. Given the controversy over Walmart, there is clearly some bias here, which hinders the quality of the article.--PlannerGuy (talk) 16:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Information was collected from data provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The relevancy of the information is to show that the county is developing the Route 3 corridor through financing derived through increasing personal property tax (during a recession) while simultaneously giving a tax breaks to developers and companies like WalMart. 208.9.82.2, 12:35, 9 January 2014.

That is a speculation; please provide valid references to support those claims. Additionally, this is an encyclopedia article and such a narrow focus for a topic degrades the quality of the information. The links/references placed within the "Taxation" sub-section do not clarify the point and are generally poor references. The Weldon-Cooper Center is a highly regarded agency, but your reference points to an order page for their publications. Again, as an FYI, tax rates were kept artificially low over previous years due to poor financial management by the Board of Supervisors and not properly funding necessary infrastructure and public safety expenditures (the nominal tax rate actually went down from $0.84 in 2005 to $0.49 in 2012; that is too drastic of a cut and not sustainable). This unfortunately boiled over during the recession because nearly all property values went down significantly. There was no choice but to raise tax rates in order to fund obligations.--PlannerGuy (talk) 01:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tapp Farm

Am I the only one who finds it a little strange that a picture of Tapp Farm is on this page? Last I checked, although quite close to the border, the parking area and adjacent historic site is actually in Spotsylvania County, not Orange County. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.197.232 (talk) 21:50, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Orange County move request

You all might be interested to know that there has been a move request to make the link Orange County become a redirect to Orange County, California. The article Orange County is currently a disambiguation page for the seven United States counties and other things named "Orange County". It would be replaced by a page called "Orange County (disambiguation)" which would show links to all the other Orange Counties. If you want to join the discussion, you can find it here: Talk:Orange County#Orange County redirect. --MelanieN (talk) 03:22, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Lede

Hi. I wasn't expecting to find in the lede "As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,481.[2] Its county seat is Orange.[3]". Does it need to be here? I am sure there must be much more remarkable information to include here to ensure we grip the attention of the reader. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 18:05, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

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1734 extent

Approximate area claimed by Orange County, Virginia from its founding in 1734 until 1738, when Augusta County was formed from its western parts. Modern county borders in grey, other Virginia counties in shades of pink.

i made and added this picture to the article, but now i am unsure whether the western and northern border are actually correct. It might be the claimed area (compare Second Virginia Charter) actually reaches west to the Pacific and North to the edge of the Arctic. I accordingly removed the image again, and will park it here until i know more.--Lommes (talk) 19:36, 19 August 2021 (UTC)