Its almost time to start the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Who stays here? Who cooks? Who goes out?
Who travels?
Thanksgiving is a lot of work.
They Can’t Make Up Their Minds: This Dog Don’t Hunt!
Are we going to have to go through all of them? Oddly enough, the Republicans have skipped the really unbaggaged intelligent ones. Both Romney, Newt and Jon Huntsman are intelligent and knowledgeable. However, Newt has so much baggage it will be hard to elect someone so unlikeable.
Stewart has declared Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich and Cain to be zombies who don’t even know they are dead. Jack Abramoff has called Newt corrupt. You know you are bad when that guy thinks you are corrupt.
The Biggest “Fuster Cluck” of All
So the truth is out. Confirmed, via the most recent article in the in an interview with The Washington Post that he plans to introduce a policy next year on the concept of “clustering,”a new approach to managing the county’s rural area.
Allow me to interject some facts here. There IS a “cluster ordinance” in the comprehensive plan for allowing clustering of homes on large tracts of land. I will put a copy of the ordinance up on the rural crescent website and link to it so people can become better informed. I am hopeful that maybe even Corey and Peter Candland will visit the link in order to educate themselves on the current cluster ordinance.
Lo and behold, Peter Candland is already finding ways to do Corey’s bidding! I don’t think that Peter has a full understanding of land use or else he would understand why Corey’s proposal is bunk.
“That, I believe, succeeds at nothing,” Stewart said. “I think that we need to look at better ways of preserving very large areas of rural ground as well as promoting more commercial office space and high-end retail. We have to take the emotion out of this debate and give it a cold, hard, objective look.”
Stewart said his argument is that having a hodgepodge of 10-acre lots doesn’t make sense. Better, he said, to have a development on 100 acres, where 30 acres are developed and the other 70 are open space, he said. Stewart said that such a policy would take a long time to develop, and the board would do so “in conjunction with the community.”
Candland said he rejects the commonly used term “slow growth,” saying “managed growth” more adequately describes his philosophy to encourage growth along with adequate infrastructure. But he largely agrees with Stewart’s philosophy of bringing the county more high-end retail and office space, he said, adding that improving the county’s quality of life will drive economic growth.
“Plain and simple,” Candland said, “we need to bring business to Prince William County.”
The level of ignorance astounds me. I wonder if Corey and Peter are aware that there is plenty of undeveloped land in the “Development Area” that has YET to be rezoned for its allowed long range use. There is not a lack of opportunity for high end retail and commercial (anyone heard of Innnovation?) in Prince William County. There is a lack of those high end retailers and Corporations CHOOSING to do business here.
Busting open the Rural Crescent will only have one sure fire result, higher taxes for everyone. Gotta love those conservative values.
I wonder if Michael Neibauer from the Washington Business Journal will have a follow up article to citizens of Prince William County affirming his pre and post prediction on Canlands election being the “game change” for development in the western end.
Not that there’s some massive push to build new homes in Prince William County, especially the western end. But when a proposal does come along — and it will — Candland’s victory may give the developer a narrow opening.
