The school board is working on providing parking places for high school students and for the parents of elementary school students who don't like busses. There is no public bus or rail service and none likely in the near future. But road construction is frantic. Forty percent of Culpeper workers drive north every day for work. Sprawl is sprawling at a rapid pace in Culpeper.
Schools are heavily overcrowded.
Cellular phone towers are popping up like mushrooms. In counties to the north, like Loudon and Prince William, all of the local candidates are now campaigning against development. The interests of farmers are defended by candidates in terms of the farmers' inviolable right to develop land. The enemy is government, which might try to buy historic land or river frontage. Civil War preservation groups are an enemy as well, though not as notorious as government, despite the fact that they buy much larger pieces of land.