TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 13 – 5:30 PM
Rally with your neighbors against Corruption and the Destruction of our County.
Join the Rally! Make sure the Board of Supervisors hears your voice! Bring your own signs and banners – or help with one we will have there! Show your support during the press conference which follows. Let them see that our voices cannot and will not be silenced!
Citizens are protesting yet another data center complex outside of the data center overlay district – Devlin Technology Park. Here are pictures from last Saturday’s protest.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 7:00 PM
Send emails to the Planning Commissioners and show up for their vote on the Digital Gateway on Wednesday!
Show up to the meeting and speak out before their vote! Share your thoughts and your passion for your quality of life and your county.
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The Coalition wants the entire Prince William County community to understand the totality of the changes that are proposed – countywide.
We recognize that data center proliferation, their associated impacts and massive energy infrastructure needs, has rightly gained the bulk of the attention. We do deserve to understand how the possible 162 MILLION SQ. FT. of DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT (as outlined by the County’s outside paid consultant) is sustainable within our county. Their report needs to be thoroughly explained. By comparison, Loudoun County’s Data Center Alley will be built out at 33 Million sq. ft.
But in addition to data center proliferation, unrestrained residential development is proposed countywide.
We want to make sure that residents countywide, not just in the rural crescent, but all the way from east to west across the county, also understand that the 2040 Comprehensive Plan will additionally insert tens of thousands of new residential units THROUGHOUT the county.
When we ask Planning how many housing units are being proposed in the Comprehensive Plan update, they can’t, or won’t, answer the question. Is it 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 or 100,000? What will the impacts be on our already overburdened school system?
We all deserve to understand the totality of all of the different proposed developments (from data centers and residential units) and their impacts on our watershed, on our roads, on our parks, on our remaining green spaces, on our carbon emission footprint, and on our schools!
Chair Ann Wheeler’s response, to our concerns regarding the intensity and number of changes being made all at the same time, is to threaten to shut down citizen participation. We reject her authoritarian style of leadership.
Chair Ann Wheeler’s response, to our concerns about water quality, is to say “I am so tired of hearing about water.”
Chair Ann Wheeler’s response, to concerns about the integrity of our National Parks, first raised by the Park Superintendents and then followed by over a dozen conservation and preservation organizations, is to ignore all of their questions and objections.
Chair Ann Wheeler’s response, to our concerns about turning this beautiful county into a concrete jungle of data centers, noise, and transmission lines, is to suggest that we residents are “uncomfortable” with “transition.”
Chair Ann Wheeler’s response, to a recall petition arising because of her clear financial conflicts of interest, is to accuse us of being against her concept of “progress.” She is personally benefiting from a multitude of data center stock purchases which she made after she was elected. Her financial gains will be our losses.
Citizen outcry is growing. We are democrats, republicans, independents. We represent a diverse citizenry from probably every ethnic, racial, and religious background.
We will not be silenced, we will not be gaslit, we will not stop sharing the facts.
Ann Wheeler plans to silence citizens.
We are ONE Prince Willam, and we will not be duped or manipulated.
We do not oppose data centers. We do not oppose new housing units. What we DO want is smart growth. For both types of development, citizens have a right to influence the process. Citizens are not simply bystanders to all these proposals. Your. voices. matter.
Urbanization of the entire county is upon all of us. You can take action now.
Join the rally tomorrow and show up for the Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday – see above. And –
Sign the Recall
Join with thousands of your fellow citizens and sign the Wheeler recall petition today. Over 5000 registered county voters have already signed the petition – which is closing in on 1/2 of the required number to request a recall of Chair Wheeler.
Sign the Wheeler Recall Petition
If you are a Gainesville district voter, there is still time for you to sign the recall petition for Pete Candland.
Sign the Candland Recall Petition
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.” The Lorax