Category: Land Use Proposals Pending (page 1 of 5)
Prince William Government overview map of currently pending planning cases: Overview map
Prince WIlliam Government interactive map of pending planning cases: Interactive map…
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[Mass e-mail by Prince William Citizens for Balanced Growth]
Fellow citizens:
Devlin Road Returns — Prince William County residential developers are trying yet again to revive an already-thrice-failed effort to put hundreds of new houses (over 500 this time) on a portion of Devlin Rd. …
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[Mass e-mail by Prince William Citizens for Balanced Growth]
All: Please note that Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) Chairman Corey Stewart, who leaves office at the end of December 2019, is making a last-ditch effort to get approval over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays for 516 more houses on Devlin Road.…
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Bull Run Observer reports 7 Oct BOCS [Board of County Supervisors] decision to defer Stone Haven vote. Chairman Stewart focuses only on Stone Haven's impact on schools, ignoring its impact on taxes, roads, property values, etc. Supervisor Candland says school board this year said BOCS had approved too many homes, but now is backing Stone Haven. Candland asks if school district is looking at alternatives, should Stone Haven be denied. School Board Chairman explains schools "were relying" on this site, but have options to buy other sites "but no money." Pete Dolan, representing Stone Haven developers, claims Stone Haven would produce less traffic than commercial development of the site, without clarifying and documenting what the various impacts would be on rush hour traffic flows.
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BOCS final vote on Stone Haven deferred to Jan 2015; date TBD. Prince William Station, Pioneer Assemblage residential developments upcoming as well. Count for these three developments now "up to at least 4,450-4,950 new houses multiplied by 3 people and about 2 cars per house." Western Prince William County residents urged to make "common cause with others in county" who face similarly overcrowded roads and schools due to tax-negative residential overdevelopment, starting with Rivergate in Woodbridge, Supervisor Principi's district. Citizens urged to vote in 23 Dec 2014 special election to choose new Brentsville supervisor; candidates' positions on balanced growth "in their own words." Arguments in favor of Stone Haven, denials that Stone Haven, other big residential projects are tax-negative refuted. Bristow Beat pro-developer bias on Stone Haven reporting described; perhaps "this one-sidedness" has something "to do with a large percentage of advertising revenues coming from residential developers."
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InsideNova reports 7 Oct BOCS decision to defer Stone Haven vote. "Confusion about whether Stone Haven would relieve or exacerbate high-school overcrowding" noted. Brentsville District Supervisor candidate Jeanine Lawson urges delay on vote, but reserves final judgement on Stone Haven, awaiting "more information about whether the school division is prepared to purchase a school site if Stone Haven is not approved."
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PWCBG 2014 fiscal impact analysis of Stone Haven shows that "Stone Haven will be almost $1,400 tax negative per house per year, compared to PWCBG’s 2012-13 analysis that showed residential developments in the county on average about $1,500 tax negative per house per year." Stone Haven and Prince William Station, all things being equal, will cost county taxpayers $5.1-$5.8M per year. Stone Haven developer promises empty land for school and ball fields in exchange for thousands of tax-negative houses. Wouldn't it be much cheaper for county to just buy the empty land for schools and ball fields outright without thousands of tax-negative houses costing taxpayers millions of dollars each year? County urged to take five steps to seriously compete for the first time with Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington counties, etc to attract hi-paying, hi-tax revenue commercial businesses to county.
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