PW Times: Proposed 102-home ‘Preserve at Long Branch’ sparks rural crescent debate

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/proposed-102-home-preserve-at-long-branch-sparks-rural-crescent-debate/article_8a40b7f8-0e20-11eb-be2e-db95f6397038.html Daniel Berti – Times Staff Writer Oct. 14, 2020 Karen Sheehan, a resident of the county’s rural area, with one of a handful of roadside signs recently erected to oppose the “Preserve at Long Branch” development which will be before the Prince William County Read More …

PWCA: Rural Crescent At Risk (Again!) Why Should You Care?

Prince William Conservation Alliance Community Report, October 12, 2020 http://www.pwconserve.org/newsletters/current.htm Rural Crescent at Risk (Again!) Why Should You Care? Because every dollar we spend to provide services to new homes and industrial uses in the countryside is a dollar we can’t spend to improve schools, parks, trails, transportation, Read More …

Derecho: A Rural Crescent FYI And Reminder To Ann

http://thederecho.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-rural-crescent-fyi-and-reminder-to-ann.html I will leave it to the learned readers to develop their own conclusions.  I simply present a copy of Chair Wheeler’s Rural Crescent Pledge from 2011 and a excerpt from a 2011 article in the Washington Business Journal regarding her race against Pete Candland for Read More …

Washington Post: Plan Would Encroach on Rural Crescent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/05/15/plan-would-encroach-on-rural-crescent/cee9c6b5-511e-4b5c-ba1f-cbd07e0f90df/ By Michele Clock May 15, 2003 Three years ago, Elena Schlossberg and her husband, Scott Kunkel, purchased a 10-acre property in Haymarket. Ready to raise a family, the couple moved from Centreville to a less populated section of Northern Virginia: western Prince William County’s Read More …

Washington Business Journal: Microsoft adds to its N. Va. data center land holdings

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/10/02/microsoft-buys-prince-william-data-center-land.html     Microsoft is buying up large tracts across Loudoun and, now, Prince William counties for data center development. By Michael Neibauer  –  Managing Editor, Washington Business Journal Oct 2, 2020 Updated Oct 2, 2020, 5:49pm EDT   Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is at it again, acquiring 46 acres Read More …

Prince William Times: Supervisors to consider bi-county parkway, more data centers as part of COVID-19 economic boost

By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday to resurrect the bi-county parkway and expand the county’s data center overlay district as part of an economic development plan aimed at boosting a local economy struggling Read More …

Bob Weir letter to Planning Commissioners: Independent Hill Small Area Plan

Last Night’s PC Worksession Dear Chairman Milne: With each meeting, I have become increasingly concerned by the behavior of the Planning Office staff and particularly the Acting Planning Director, Deputy County Executive Horner. Last night’s worksession regarding the Independent Hill Small Area Plan served to Read More …

Prince William Times: Planning commission voices concern over plan some say could open the ‘rural crescent’ to data centers

By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer The proposed Independent Hill Small Area plan Planning Commissioners went back and forth Wednesday over concerns about the Independent Hill Small Area Plan – a proposal that aims to lay the foundation for new development along the Va. 234 Read More …