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Prince William Times: Northern Virginia leaders discuss local climate solutions during virtual forum

Posted onNovember 22, 2021November 23, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/northern-virginia-leaders-discuss-local-climate-solutions-during-virtual-forum/article_f6037f68-4b53-11ec-b81b-4b639cbca3f4.html By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Nov 22, 2021 Clockwise from top left: Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair Ann Wheeler, moderator Andrea McGimsey, Fairfax Board of County Supervisors Chair Jeff McKay and Arlington Board of County Supervisors Chair Matt de Ferranti participate Read More …

Protecting the Rural Crescent – Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions

Posted onNovember 21, 2021November 26, 2021AuthorKaren

https://faithforclimate.org/pwc-rural-crescent/ Protecting the Rural Crescent Virginia bluebells along the Bull Run Tributary Lately in Prince William County (PWC) there has been a lot of buzz around if development should be placed in the rural crescent or not. Sashia Scott, the Community Organizer for the Prince Read More …

Join the Rising Tide!

Posted onNovember 21, 2021November 23, 2021AuthorKaren

Join the Rising Tide! The destruction of our rural crescent, the integrity of our National Parks, and the risk of contamination to our Occoquan Reservoir is a regional, state, and federal issue. But first and foremost, the industrialization of our rural crescent will have a Read More …

Archive: 2013 Bacon’s Rebellion – The Ladies of Pageland Lane

Posted onNovember 21, 2021November 23, 2021AuthorKaren

http://www.baconsrebellion.com/archive/articles/2013/10/pageland_ladies.html The Ladies of Pageland Lane In Prince William County populist conservatives and liberal smart-growthers have found common ground in fighting Northern Virginia’s proposed Bi-County Parkway. by James A. Bacon The command center for the fight against Northern Virginia’s Bi-County Parkway can be found in Read More …

Digital Gateway – Pageland Lane Trip Generation

Posted onNovember 20, 2021November 20, 2021AuthorKaren

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Bi-County Parkway map

Posted onNovember 20, 2021AuthorKaren

Prince William Times: Opposition mounts against rural crescent data center plans

Posted onNovember 18, 2021November 18, 2021AuthorKaren

Opposition mounts against ‘rural crescent’ data center plans | News | princewilliamtimes.com By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Nov 18, 2021 Elena Schlossberg-Kunkel, executive director of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, one of several groups organizing against opening the county’s rural area to Read More …

InsideNoVa: Planners hit pause on data center project in Gainesville

Posted onNovember 11, 2021November 23, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/planners-hit-pause-on-data-center-project-in-gainesville/article_0bf763ec-429f-11ec-8c97-5f55fbc545da.html By Nolan Stout Nov 11, 2021 Updated Nov 12, 2021 1 During its Nov. 3 meeting, the Planning Commission voted 6-1 to table a proposal for a data center in Gainesville until late January. Potomac Commissioner Juan McPhail cast the dissenting vote and the Read More …

Pete Candland: Data Centers on Pageland Lane

Posted onNovember 7, 2021November 30, 2021AuthorKaren

Dear Friends, As some of you may know, I live off Pageland Lane. Robyn and I and the kids moved out here four years ago and have loved every day of it. Like many who live along Pageland Lane, we were expecting to spend the Read More …

Prince William Times: County Supervisor Pete Candland joins his neighbors in asking the county to replan their neighborhood for data centers

Posted onNovember 5, 2021November 30, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/county-supervisor-pete-candland-joins-his-neighbors-in-asking-the-county-to-replan-their-neighborhood/article_e56ed240-3e3f-11ec-976b-ffd3d71cf7eb.html Upscale Catharpin Farm Estates residents offer their homes for county’s proposed data center corridor By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Nov 5, 2021 Updated Nov 19, 2021 Supervisor Pete Candland, R-GainesvilleDaniel Berti Yet another group of rural crescent homeowners is seeking to sell their land Read More …

Impending Community Crisis: Data Centers

Posted onNovember 1, 2021November 24, 2021AuthorKaren

Dear Coalition supporters, If you feel like this is a game of high stakes whack-a-mole, you are correct. Not ONLY is the Planning Office, at the direction of the Board of Supervisors, considering data center proliferation throughout the Occoquan Watershed AND adjacent to National Parks, we Read More …

Smarter Growth and Sauvignon

Posted onOctober 28, 2021November 2, 2021AuthorKaren

Smarter Growth and Sauvignon: A Conversation About Industrial Development in Rural Prince William Wednesday, November 10 at 5 pm The Winery at Sunshine Farm 15850 Sunshine Ridge Lane Gainesville, VA 20155 register here. Hosted by: Prince William Conservation Alliance, Piedmont Environmental Council, American Battlefield Trust, National Parks Conservation Read More …

InsideNoVA: ‘Massive’ data center complex proposed in Gainesville

Posted onJuly 22, 2021July 25, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/massive-data-center-complex-proposed-in-gainesville/article_04107290-eb0b-11eb-b4e0-97dc7fdcfe9e.html Planning Commission defers action on proposal at I-66/Route 29 By Nolan Stout Jul 22, 2021 Updated Jul 22, 2021 The proposed data center complex would be across U.S. Route 29 from the Virginia Gateway shopping center, just south of Interstate 66. Data center proposals keep Read More …

Prince William Times: Supervisors OK study of 800-acre data center campuses near Manassas battlefield

Posted onJuly 21, 2021July 25, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/supervisors-ok-study-of-800-acre-data-center-campuses-near-manassas-battlefield/article_e41739e2-ea3d-11eb-9157-8ba31a2688f4.html By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Jul 21, 2021 Updated Jul 21, 2021 An 800-acre data center campus, dubbed the “PWC Digital Gateway,” is under discussion for a string of properties in Prince William County’s “rural crescent” on land bordering the Manassas National Battlefield Park.courtesy photo/Roger Read More …

PWC provides 40% of Occoquan Watershed

Posted onJuly 19, 2021July 25, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.facebook.com/elena.schlossbergkunkel/posts/10227041193994624 The vote for the PW Digital Gateway on Pageland Lane is much bigger than just PWC to protect the Watershed in all of the NOVA region. Environmental and Water Studies need to be completed before votes can be taken! Why the rural crescent and Read More …

Supervisor Lawson: Alert! Data Centers in Rural Crescent

Posted onJuly 19, 2021AuthorKaren

Friends: The time has come, yet again, for me to implore you for help The future of our County and protected rural areas has reached a critical juncture. Over the last two decades, the Rural Crescent has encountered numerous threats, but none as physical and Read More …

PWCA: Data Centers Here, There….Anywhere?

Posted onJuly 19, 2021AuthorKaren

http://www.pwconserve.org/newsletters/current.htm On Tuesday, July 20th, Prince Williams Board of County Supervisors will vote to initiate two Comprehensive Plan Amendments (CPA) located outside the County’s Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District CPA2021-00005, Compton Property/Amazon Data Services, would change the long-range land use designation for approximately 77 Read More …

Prince William Times Letter to Editor: Supervisors’ ‘develop-everywhere’ strategy raises lots of questions

Posted onJuly 19, 2021July 19, 2021AuthorKaren

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/opinion/letter-supervisors-develop-everywhere-strategy-raises-lots-of-questions/article_9df66b80-e58e-11eb-8130-d76ccb3ba1e5.html Our Prince William Board of County Supervisors can hire consultants and plan behind closed doors to decimate the rural crescent, but in the end, the harm they are bringing is not only to the residents of this county, from west to east, but also Read More …

John Lewis Good Trouble Vigil – Karen Sheehan and Frank Washington

Posted onJuly 18, 2021July 19, 2021AuthorKaren

Karen Sheehan – John Lewis Good Trouble Vigil – 7/17/21 I grew up in Northern Virginia and have lived in Prince William County now for 22 years. I am so happy we have this beautiful place to share together today. All of these fields and Read More …

Supervisor Candland: Important PWC Data Center Update

Posted onJuly 18, 2021July 18, 2021AuthorKaren

Dear Friends: This Tuesday, the Board of County Supervisors will be taking another significant step in the march to bring data centers out to our rural and historic areas. The Board will consider a vote to “initiate” the staff examination of an application to approve Read More …