Category: News
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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
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Prince William Times: Data centers must stay in their zone – and out of the rural crescent
Oct. 7, 2020 At present, it’s difficult to recall a time when citizens and local government worked collaboratively. Yet, in 2016, that rare event did indeed occur. When an Amazon Data Center’s need for power in the western end of the county resulted in chaos, Read More …
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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,
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Citizen letter: Groundwater – Save the Rural Crescent – Deny CPA2020-00008 and REZ2017-00013
Citizens expect sound land use policies based on what is in the best interest for everyone county-wide, not just based on one developer’s self-interest. We must have sustainable, available, good quality water for all residents. To do that we must plan to for sustainable water. Read More …
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Coalition letter: Mid County Estates, whoops I mean “Preserve at Long Forest” CPA
Dear Chairman Milne and fellow Planning Commissioners, For nearly a decade the community has been opposed to Mid County Park and Estates (now repurposed as The Preserve at Long Forest Pak). It wasn’t a good plan then, and it isn’t a good plan now. They Read More …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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Coalition Letter to Planning Commissioners: Independent Hill Small Area Plan
Dear Commissioners, It’s easy to forget important historical lessons when the crisis is in your rear view mirror. But for those of us that lived it, and fought against inappropriate data center placement, and advocated for a smart policy moving forward, we thought it important Read More …
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Derecho Blogspot: This Does Not Compute
https://thederecho.blogspot.com/2019/12/this-does-not-compute.html Next week, just as the lame duck BOCS heads for the door, it will consider the Gainesville Crossing rezoning application for a data center complex outside of the Data Center Opportunity Zone. The applicant asserts that the 4.5 milli