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IMPORTANT EVENTS
HOA Roundtable Meeting, Final for 2022
Thursday, Dec 15, 7:30 PM
Meeting ID: 820 5855 5271
Passcode: 774360
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Close out 2022 & Look forward to 2023, there's a lot to know and do!
PWDG CPA & 2040 Comp Plan - Latest Developments
Year end reports from Committees & Partner Organizations
Individual HOA/Civic Assoc reports and topics of concern
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The proposed Prince William Digital Gateway, if approved, will be THE WORLD'S LARGEST INDUSTRIAL DATA CENTER CORRIDOR. We believe this represents the largest threat to our property values and quality of life in Piedmont we've ever faced. We recently met with representatives of the HOA Roundtable of Prince William County and are formally standing together with them and fighting this proposal to protect our interests.
We need your help. Here's how:
- Click here to review the latest brief.
- Contact our U.S. Senators, U.S. House Representatives and County Supervisors using the information in this brief or below.
- Demand an Equal Tax Rate. Data Centers should pay their fair share = the same tax rate as Prince William County homeowners.
- Demand Impact Studies - environmental, wetlands, parks and reservoirs.
- Tell them that this will do irreversible damage to our environmental and historical resources, wetlands, aquifers, Civil War sites, African American heritage sites, quality of life and home values and that these should be protected rather than being sold to the highest bidder.
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine
- For subject, type in: Prince William Digital Gateway
- For message topic, select from the drop-down menu: Environment & Wildlife Protection
- Paste your desired message into the box provided
U.S. Senator Mark Warner
- For topic, select from the drop-down menu: Environment
- For “Please type the subject of your message”, type in: Prince William Digital Gateway
- Paste your desired message into the box provided
U.S. Representative Jennifer Wexton
U.S. Representative Rob Wittman
Gainesville District Supervisor Pete Candland
Chair at-Large Ann Wheeler
This project would re-zone nearly 2,200 acres of agricultural and environmental resource land adjacent to the Manassas National Battlefield Park to Industrial Zoning and radically transform the landscape and surrounding area, with 28 million square feet of data centers under roof. Data center tax rates are far below those paid in other counties (even with being paid a far higher tax rate than is proposed from Prince William County, Loudoun County had a $60 million budget shortfall
because of data centers).
This project will do irreparable harm to the region's historical resources and natural resources, resurrect the Bi-county Parkway, which will bring large volumes of interstate truck traffic from I-95 to Loudoun County right through the heart of Prince William County and have a significant negative impact on the area's rural residential character and depress home values. To date, Prince William County has performed
NO independent studies of detrimental impacts. For these reasons, at this time the Prince William Digital Gateway is opposed by the
National Park Service, and the
Virginia Department of Forestry, among others.
Please click
here to review an
Executive Summary.
YOU can make your voice heard and stand with us to protect our property values and quality of life. We urge you to take action
NOW.
Sincerely,
Board of Directors
Piedmont Homeowners Association, Inc.
Other:
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> HOA Roundtable of Prince William County, VA & Independent Homeowners Alliance
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HOA/CMA/Civic leadership forum to protect residential quality of life and property values.
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HOA Roundtable Meeting, Final for 2022
Thursday, Dec 15, 7:30 PM
Via ZOOM
Meeting ID: 820 5855 5271
Passcode: 774360
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,82058555271#,,,,*774360# US (Washington DC)
+19292056099,,82058555271#,,,,*774360# US (New York)
Close out 2022 & Look forward to 2023, there's a lot to know and do!
PWDG CPA & 2040 Comp Plan - Latest Developments
Year end reports from Committees & Partner Organizations
Individual HOA/Civic Assoc reports and topics of concern
Look ahead to 2023
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And for your reading enjoyment, please check out the latest HOA Roundtable blog post (it’s another good one!):
WRITE, WRITE, WRITE!!!
YOU can make a difference!
You, your husband, wife, adult children, friends, neighbors, aunts, uncles, family dog (ok, maybe not him:) all
need to write to the PWC Director of Planning and tell her you OPPOSE the PW Digital Gateway. We need hundreds of letters!
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IMPORTANT PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE EVENTS
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- The Planning Commission hearing and vote on September 14th was a bitter disappointment, especially after such an awful and unsupportable presentation by the Planning Office. There are few remaining opportunities to voice your opinions to the Board of County Supervisors before their vote on October 11th. Tuesday, October 11th at 7:30 PM - Board of County Supervisors public hearing and vote on the Prince William Digital Gateway. Make your plans now for a long night on the 11th.To fight back, the Coalition to Protect Prince William County has set up simple “click to send” e-mail templates
It’s easy:
- Once you click on the below link, it will take you to a page with a series of “click to send” e-mail templates.
- For each topic listed, click on the “Send E-mail” button
- A template will appear which enables you to enter your name, e-mail address, and city
- After entering the requested information in each box, click on “Send Email”
- Repeat the procedure for all of the other topics
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Other actions you can take:
- Sign the recall petitions against Supervisor Pete Candland and Chair Ann Wheelerand volunteer for signature collecting events (below)
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While support for this may be viewed by some as pointed and direct, it is neither partisan, nor political. The Roundtable firmly and steadfastly maintains its non-partisan stance and enjoys strong participation and active involvement of Republicans, Democrats and Independents. We are proud of that.
Our support for this recall is in direct response to claims made in the petition of neglect of duty and misuse of office, and that Supervisor Candland has placed his own personal and financial interests above those of the residents of the Gainesville Magisterial District. In doing so he has been recused from discussing and having any involvement with the PW Digital Gateway, the largest and most impactful land use proposal in the County’s history. This prevents him from educating and engaging the very heavily impacted Gainesville community - no emails, no letters, no town halls and NO ability to advocate for his constituents on this incredibly impactful issue. Every other citizen of Prince William County has a representative on the Board of County Supervisors to represent their interests regarding this issue and others related to it. In this case, the most impacted citizens do not. This is disenfranchising.
Supporting a recall for these reasons is not partisan, it is civic.
If you agree with the petition and you are a Gainesville District resident, We ask you to consider assisting in the collection of signatures within your community (if in the Gainesville District). If you wish to add seek or facilitate signatures of others you may do so as long as those signatures are from registered voters in the Gainesville District. Any of you who may be unaffiliated with a formal HOA and wish to sign the petition or collect signatures, please contact me so I can arrange to get the petition to you. Attached are 4 documents related to the petition:
Following the instructions is critically important. They are contained among the documents above and also are restated below:
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2000 signatures (1796 to be exact) are needed – signature collection can start immediately. All of these docs will be posted to the ProtectPWC.org coalition website if more copies are needed
· Only this form with signatures and complete information, date and witness signature at bottom, are valid and can/will be accepted
· Only Gainesville residents to sign for Candland petition
· Confirm resident has not already signed form with different witness – no duplicates
· Individuals must sign for themselves, no signing for someone else
· Manual signatures only, gathered manually – no electronic or online
· Only one witness name/signature per form
· Witness to reflect beginning and ending date(s) of gathering signatures on individual form
· Witness to ensure that Gainesville residents who complete the form reflect legible full names and legible complete addresses. I will be maintaining a spreadsheet of all names and addresses and must be able to read and understand what is written.
· All fields must be completed
· All completed forms to be turned in to Karen Sheehan, please call or email to arrange drop-off: karensheehan@verizon.net, or call: (703) 930-7665
Time is of the essence. Please work to offer opportunities to your communities and others to sign the petition within the next two weeks. Once the required number of signatures have been collected (and we hope to have many more than that) the petition will be submitted to the Circuit Court for consideration by a judge. All signatures will be verified by the Court. Party affiliation has no bearing on this process. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask! Thank you!!
Kathryn Kulick
Vice Chair, Board of Directors
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| > The Coalition to Protect PWC (Prince William County) |
Our mission is to defend the broader community against threats to our quality of life. The Coalition to Protect Prince William County is a grassroots movement originally formed in 2014 in response to Dominion Power’s proposal to erect 100-plus-foot-tall transmission towers and a new substation for a single customer — Amazon – that wanted to establish a data center campus in Haymarket, Va. The Coalition is a registered 501(c)(4) corporation. We are a group of volunteers; there are no paid directors. Because we are tax-exempt, all donated funds are dedicated to expenses.
The Wheeler recall petition (complete) and signature form are now posted and accessible on the Coalition website (front page and more)
| > Coalition to Protect National Parks and the Rural Crescent |
We are a coalition of local, regional, and national organizations actively protecting the Rural Crescent and our National Parks in Prince William County from industrial sprawl.
| > Prince William County Government |
Comprehensive Plan Amendment #CPA2021-00004, PW Digital Gateway is a request to create a technology corridor along Pageland Lane for the development of data center uses. The application proposes to utilize existing transmission and fiber optic infrastructure. The corridor, which originally included 27 parcels located on both sides of Pageland Lane in four geographic areas south of Sudley Road and approximately one mile north of Route 29, was expanded to evaluate the entire corridor between Sudley Road and Route 29. Data centers are on the Board’s adopted List of Targeted Industries for New, and Expanding Companies revised on August 4, 2020.
To receive automatic updates about general county government information, including Planning Office notifications, road closures, tax reminders, and other community information
subscribe to PWC Alerts.
| > Prince William Conservation Alliance |
PWCA works to establish desirable, equitable, sustainable communities, promote environmental stewardship, and create opportunities for residents to engage in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities.
| > Gainesville Citizens for Smart Growth |
Media Contacts:
Roger Yackel, 215-431-9228 (cell)
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- FORCE – Friends of Rural Crescent Energized
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- Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare – A Town Under Siege
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