This is not complicated. The Rural Crescent has served as the single most successful growth boundary in Prince William County. Its preservation ensures our collective tax dollars are appropriately invested in areas where the most people live.
What do you call preservation of the Rural Crescent? Smart Growth. Build the roads and the schools in the parts of the county where the need is most critical: our more suburban and urban areas.
The Planning Office’s rural “preservation” proposal is the quintessential wolf in sheep’s clothing.
With no actual or credible plan to “save” open space, the proposal is simply another ruse to build out the Rural Crescent, and ensure backwards, sprawl-style development.
Protect your green, fiscally and environmentally. Our county needs to Grow Smart – less traffic, more green spaces, more green in your pocket.
Your voice will make a difference. Make sure you are heard and send in your own message with our easy click to send email to the County Board of Supervisors and Planning Office representatives – access here. Personalize the text to make your message even more powerful, or send it as it is. Planning Office deadline for your comments is this Friday, August 16.
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