So if you missed the show yesterday, Pete Candland, having decided to go another round with Corey, triumphantly prevailed, leaving Corey to walk away licking his wounds. In a nutshell, Pete wanted to reaffirm the Board’s language to support closing 29 and 234, ONLY when the approved Manassas Battlefield Bypass was constructed per previous resolutions. Corey, of course, fearing that his previous under handed work would be undone, vehemently objected. It was fabulous to watch. Corey tried sooooo hard to set the stage to support his convoluted narrative that ANY road was intended to replace closing 29 and 234.
Forget that ALL previous resolutions and language only discussed closing the road in relation to the 1988 Congressional Manassas Battlefield Preservation mandate. Nope, apparently, you can replace Battlefield Bypass with any old road, even one intended to make PWC the next interstate County truck route! Pete was superb in his ability to call Corey out on his lies in the most effective non confrontational way.
The motion passed, 6 yes, 2 no. Why John Jenkins doesn’t understand the obvious sometimes will never cease to amaze me, and yet, he was Corey’s companion on this one. Here is why this matter though, Manassas Battlefield will not sign off on the bi county parkway unless the county promises to close 234 at a bare minimum. The fight continues……………………………
Snooping around the blogosphere reveals that this situation is seen by Candland supporters as a David and Goliath match.
I see it as 6 members of the board recognizing that politicians rely on weasel words to move things around to suit themselves and fool their constituents. Hopefully the wording provided clarity to keep things on the up and up.
The truck traffic is just going to happen. The thought that government is going to prevent this by not building a road and business owners are then not going to force their trucks through PWC is nuts. It’s not the road, it’s the business and business wins.
Local government can limit trucks of a certain size to a particular lane but then they have to enforce that. That should have been done on 234 and 17 when those roads became the cut through to I-81.
It sounds like we don’t even need the bi-county parkway to be miserable. They are already there headed to I 66 to I 81.
Rt. 234 already has a million trucks on it.
Local government probably needs to go back and do what you suggest.
During Citizens Time, I listened as the lady who lives out there on the five acre lots describe the true sense of “rural”….and then referenced the Nokesville meeting on the Rural Crescent Study and how it is likely those 5 and 10 acre lots will be reclassified. I have a feeling that redesignation may be the next fight Mr. Candland may have to take up.
ding ding ding Ray! You hit it on the head 🙁