The Coalition to Protect Prince William County
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By Daniel Berti The Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted on party lines Wednesday morning to approve a 99-home development in the county’s designated rural area against the recommendations of both the county’s Planning Commission and county planning department. The board voted 5-3 to approve both a comprehensive plan amendment and a rezoning for
Preserve at Long Branch moves forward in early-morning vote Jared Foretek Jan 20, 2021 Map of the proposed Preserve at Long Branch development site in Prince William County. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors removed two critical hurdles for a plan to build 99
A Democratic-elected Board last night voted for sprawl. They did the job that the previous board under Corey Stewart couldn’t accomplish for years. They say they are selling “equity.” There is no equity in what they approved. True smart growth principles serve to protect citizens – they
Click here to register to speak online at the public hearing. Click here to share your views with the Board of Supervisors ——————– The agenda is now out for next Tuesday’s Jan. 19 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, when supervisors will be voting on Mark Granville Smith’s applications
Certain county leaders seem determined to help Classic Concepts developer Mark Granville Smith with his Preserve at Long Branch development application. This controversial proposal to bust open the Rural Crescent has again (for the 5th time) been put on the Board of Supervisors agenda for
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Please send a thank you to Chair Milne, and Commissioners Fontanella, McKay, Berry, and Taylor for voting to deny sprawl-inducing, environment-busting development. The negative consequences of climate change have never been more apparent. It’s time to get smart and protect our unique environmental assets which
For five years this community banded to together to demand Amazon bury their data center extension cord through residential communities. We didn’t stop there. We continued our fight, working with the Board of Supervisors, to unanimously adopt a common sense Data Center Overlay District –
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Dear Neighbor – We just found out that the developer, Classic Concepts, has pulled the Preserve at Long Branch application….for now. Deferral just means “to be continued” – until such time that he thinks he can get it to pass. This Prince William community is amazing.
The county finally came out with the agenda for next Tuesday’s Oct. 20 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, when supervisors will be voting on Mark Granville Smith’s Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) and Rezoning applications for his Preserve at Long Branch. His most recent application proposes 102 new homes,
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
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,
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
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
Do you remember the study, or the set up, to dismantle the Rural Crescent – all because one developer, Classic Homes Concepts, wanted to quadruple the number of homes and introduce sewer on Rural Crescent land he purchased well after the protections were established? That same
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,
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PROTECT THE RURAL CRESCENT! Do you remember the study, or the set up, to dismantle the Rural Crescent – all because one developer, Classic Homes Concepts, wanted to quadruple the number of homes and introduce sewer on Rural Crescent land he purchased well after the protections
In the midst of a pandemic no less…. This community still shows up to protect one its most unique assets – the Rural Crescent. Gainesville Commissioner Rick Berry said it so eloquently, “After reading all the emails, both pro and con on this application, and listening to the