Wheeler Recall Petition

UPDATE:  The Wheeler recall was closed March 31, 2023:  Press Release: Reject Don’t Re-Elect Chair Wheeler – The Coalition to Protect Prince William County (protectpwc.org) —————————————————- SIGNATURE SHEET:   Wheeler Recall Petition: 2 pages, Print and submit single-sided:  Wheeler Recall Petition Signature sheet FACT SHEET: Wheeler Read More …

Industrialization Without Representation

“The Coalition to Protect Prince William County, a longtime advocate for the county’s protected “rural crescent,” announced Tuesday an effort to recall Gainesville District Supervisor Pete Candland, charging he has neglected his duty and misused his office as a result of his personal financial interest in Read More …

Letter to Editor: Supervisors’, data center supporters’ conflicts of interest cloud PW Digital Gateway plan – Prince William TImes

LETTER: Supervisors’, data center supporters’ conflicts of interest cloud PW Digital Gateway plan | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com June 30, 2022 “Gypsies, tramps, and thieves.” We hear it from the residents of Prince William County regarding those behind the Pageland Digital Gateway, led by a gang Read More …

Candland Recall Petition – Gainesville Magisterial District voters can submit signatures

December 10, 2022 – Supervisor Pete Candland announced his resignation effective December 16. See his announcement here:  BREAKING NEWS:   Supervisor Pete Candland Resigns Effective December 16 The Candland recall petition will not be submitted to the circuit court. A total of 4,338 signatures were collected Read More …

Press Release: Gainesville District Citizens Launch Effort to Recall Corrupt Candland

PRESS RELEASE – Coalition to Protect Prince William County Press Conference: 6:30PM, Tuesday, June 28 Location: One County Complex, Woodbridge, VA 22192 Executive director says: “Candland is worse than compromised – he’s complicit. It’s over. He must go.” Haymarket, Virginia (June 28, 2022) – Gainesville district Read More …

PEC: Regional traffic congestion, pollution in the Occoquan?

Last November, PEC wrote about the threats posed to Prince William County’s long-standing Rural Crescent by three major land use decisions. Since then, the conversation around data centers near Manassas Battlefield has repeatedly made national news headlines and filled the op-ed sections of the local Read More …

Letter to Editor: In Prince William, true land-use planning has been sidelined by a development free-for-all – Prince William Times

LETTER: In Prince William, true land-use planning has been sidelined by a development free-for-all | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com Unpredictability and instability are sweeping through Prince William rural crescent, an area on the county’s western side without public sewer and characterized by picturesque forests, fields, and Read More …

Letter: County’s climate change commitments must be part of its new comprehensive plan

May 6, 2022 Prince William County’s proposed 2040 Comprehensive Plan, as it currently stands, is a vision for a developer’s heaven. Environmental sustainability in the document seems to rely mainly on the concept of “open space.” There’s a lot more involved in protecting against climate Read More …

Letter: Environmental assessment needed for PW Digital Gateway – InsideNoVa

Currently the Prince William Board of County Supervisors is considering changes to the county’s Comprehensive Plan affecting industrial development in the “Rural Crescent,” including the Prince William Digital Gateway project. Based on the scope of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment, with its potential environmental, cultural and Read More …

Come to the Coalition sponsored Citizens Town Hall – April 28

(See announcement below regarding April 28 “safe space” town hall for citizens opposed to proposed county-wide projects) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”  ― Margaret Mead We understand – sometimes Read More …

GET ENGAGED! Citizen Town Hall – April 28

Industrial blight is community blight.  Just like a deadly virus, it spreads from the host to its neighbors. Rural Sanders Lane neighbors mull selling to data centers | News | princewilliamtimes.com “The bucolic road hosts a smattering of signs protesting the proposed digital development to Read More …