New winery ordinance threatens to shut down Fauquier County wineries

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Fauquier County is now known as Footloose County, named after the famous movie and remake movie about a town that didn’t allow dancing or partying for its kids.  In this case, its the winery crowd who gets their wings clipped.  There are  currently 26 wineries in Fauquier County.

Its rather difficult to understand why Fauquier wanted to take a perfectly good, positive thing about its county and step on it like a bug.  Here are the nuts and bolts of the new restrictions:

Kipp Hanly reported the following in insidenova.com:

FAUQUIER CO., Va. —

If the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors passes a winery-related ordinance this week, Pearmund Cellars owner Chris Pearmund said the county would be tagged with a less than flattering nickname.
Fauquier County will be known as “Foot­loose County,” said Pearmund, a reference to the rigidly conservative fictional place in the 1980s where dancing was outlawed.

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