Once again, local politics was reduced yesterday to a party line vote, with Jeanine Lawson’s resolution failing 5-3.
Don’t Supervisors Vic Angry and Ann Wheeler KNOW they already voted unanimously to approve a lame duck resolution in 2020 put forward by Kenny Boddye?
Here it is: https://eservice.pwcgov.org/…/agendas/2020/0204/9-qq.pdf
The 2020 lame duck resolution which Vic Angry and Ann Wheeler approved is still applicable today. Which means they currently already have lame-duck voting restrictions in place. We were simply asking to include controversial land use projects in what already exists in their lame duck moratorium.
Maybe someone should tell them.
“While in an interview Wheeler acknowledged that Prince William abided by the lame duck session rule in the past, recent boards since 2019 haven’t followed suit.”
“I felt it was pretty simple that we need to continue governing through the end of the year,” she said. “To put a moratorium on anything didn’t seem to be a good form of governance.”
“I have never agreed with a lame duck period,” Angry said in an email. “I swore to work for the people with a four-year term in mind, and I will make decisions (controversial or not) regardless of it being an election year.”
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We invite you to watch this video Datacenter Impact.mp4 to experience what is happening, what could happen, and what we want to protect. The first shot is of the Village Tech Park monstrosity that was approved by Ann Wheeler’s Board majority, only yards away from people’s front doors. For years this site was intended to be good mixed-use development, now it’s industrial blight. The remainder of the video is a tour of some of Loudoun County’s Data Center Alley along Loudoun Parkway. And finally, the video ends with a drive along Pageland Lane where 27 million sq ft of data center is proposed — envision Pageland Lane becoming the Bi-County Parkway through our own “data center alley” if the Digital Gateway is approved.
If anyone has any question what Ann Wheeler and her majority Board vision is for Western Prince William County — on top of Hallowed Ground, next to a National Park, in a drinking water supply watershed, next to homes and schools — envision 80 million sq ft of monolithic data center complexes surrounding homes and communities in Bristow, Nokesville, Haymarket, Gainesville – even Potomac! – and more.
Thank you to the amazing Prince William County residents that spoke at the press conference. Thank you to 908 residents who sent the click-to-send and the more than 100 who additionally sent personal emails.
Thank you to Supervisors Lawson, Weir, and Vega who voted for transparency in government by supporting the new lame duck resolution.
And, of course, thank you to candidates Deshundra Jefferson, Vern Robinson, and Jeannie LaCroix for speaking up in support of representative government, and for supporting the additional lame-duck resolution that would have simply included controversial applications, in addition to the lame-duck restrictions currently already in place on residential development.