Watch this Video! And select an opportunity to speak up!

The Coalition to Protect PWC is absolutely not against data centers. We support them in the right places – in the current PW data center opportunity zone overlay district.

And we support data centers because they provide a valuable service – ensuring important data is preserved.

Stopping the Plunder of Pageland will serve as an impediment to more data centers in the wrong places, as well as an impediment to pushing through the zombie highway, the “Bi-County Parkway.”

It was not until the Pageland homeowners submitted their “digital gateway” Comprehensive Plan Amendment that the Bi-County Parkway “resurfaced with a vengeance.” There was even an attempt to deny the Bi-County Parkway was being re-animated, but this community was too smart to believe that misinformation campaign.

You know the old adage, a picture speaks a thousand words….so does this video:

We don’t have to add any of our own impressions to what this describes. We do NOT want an outer beltway slicing our county in half with a PWC version of a Jersey Turnpike. See the proposed roadway changes map (blue indicates widening and/or extending existing roads):

MAP: Feb. 17, 2022: Comp Plan Update Roadway Segments for Consideration (including Bi-County Parkway and widening of Rte 234 through PW County)

Please take any and every opportunity to speak up. We know everyone cannot do it all, so please consider picking at least one of these opportunities to add your voice or written word to make your concerns known:

March 1: 1:15 pm Heritage Hunt HOA Citizen Rally at McCoart Building 1 County Complex Court Woodbridge. Followed by speaking at 2 PM Citizen time.

March 1: 7:30 pm Public Hearing at the McCoart Building 1 County Complex Court Woodbridge on another 500,000 sq ft data center development, outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone, outside the town of Haymarket adjacent to Tyler Elementary School and in close proximity to Gainesville and Haymarket residential development.

March 3: 6 PM PW Planning Office Citizen Engagement meeting for the Data Center Overlay Expansion – Comprehensive Review, at the Gainesville High School Auditorium, 13150 University Blvd. Gainesville
- To date, there is NO updated map to review, we recommend taking your two minute speaking time to ask why staff would even have a “listening session?” Ask them to provide the evidence of what is being considered.

No supportive documentation has been provided by any staff member in Prince William County to suggest the PW data center overlay is full. See for yourself all the data centers this county has already built and has already approved yet to be built. Visit the Coalition website, click on ISSUES in the blue ribbon at the top, then select Data Centers in the Wrong Places to educate yourself with all the facts.

Here is a great article that summarizes why the PW data center opportunity zone/overlay was adopted in May of 2016.

“The Opportunity Zone Overlay District was created with the intent to match the areas that are appropriately zoned and planned for data centers with that power infrastructure. We picked the Opportunity Zone because unlike any other alternative…it is the most protective for communities and the most business-friendly toward the industry,” said Price.

County board votes to create 10,000 acre ‘opportunity zone’ for future data centers (whatsupwoodbridge.com)

STAY TUNED, more community engagement opportunities on the horizon. In the meantime, we need to continue to get the word out and share the facts.

WE ARE ONE PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY!

TAKE ACTION:
Get a sign – many new yard sign varieties now available!

Download and distribute flyers!

Send an email to local, state, or national leaders

Sign a petition

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