To the Prince William Board of County Supervisors -
The current Prince William noise ordinance is unable to adequately address 24 hour-a-day, health and sleep-damaging noise from industrial data centers. By approving a nationally unprecedented 66-plus million square feet of data centers in recent years, with 11 million more under review, the Board of County Supervisors is exposing thousands of residents to harmful effects.
But it is not too late to protect the people of the County with basic public safety ordinance.
I join thousands across the County in asking the Board of Supervisors to adopt the innovative and ground-tested draft noise ordinance as developed by nationally renowned expert acoustics consultants and the Data Center Ordinance Advisory Group. It would maintain current regulatory levels for the vast majority of businesses and other entities, while, for the first time, offering meaningful relief to nearby neighborhoods from continuous, unrelenting low frequency industrial noise.
It now appears that forces behind the scenes have succeeded in watering down the draft ordinance to an arbitrary, ineffective standard that will be presented by county staff to the Board on October 28. And just to be sure that there is no meaningful opposition, they have silenced the Advisory Group through your vote on October 7. I ask that you reverse this shocking, aggressive and unfounded action at the earliest opportunity. Restore the public voice to this essential health and safety ordinance effort!
Sincerely,
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