Stave off the commercialization of Orange County. Preserve the rural lifestyle.
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Brian R. Hall
12 years ago
We moved here because it was rural. Keep it that way!!
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Erin Sweeney Gordonsville
12 years ago
The time has come to say no to sprawl and let our lovely rural county stay the way it is for future generations.
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Charles Meehan
12 years ago
We must stop this absurd movement to ruin the culture of Orange County, please ad my name in support, thanks
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Melyni Worth
12 years ago
Keep Orange rural!
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Lauren Forestell
12 years ago
Orange County is ripe for destruction by people who want to make money on the pastoral beauty that is Orange County. When it's gone, it will be GONE. The Comprehensive Plan was designed to preserve the rural character of our county. Not to destroy it.
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Megan Keleher Hack
12 years ago
Gordonsville VA
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Russell Riley
12 years ago
Somerset, VA
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Joan Bergstrom
12 years ago
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As I have stated previously, the word "infilling" as used in the A2 Category is just a soft word for sprawl. Support the many successful and growing forms of agriculture in Orange County -- our vineyards, nurseries, greenhouses,etc. Don't destroy what people come here for. I oppose the revised Comp Plan.
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Timmy Barr Locust Grove 22508
12 years ago
We already a half empty sprawling shopping center right down Route 3! Why do we need to encourage another?
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Janice Ebert
12 years ago
This is a beautiful county and money and greed will ruin it. They just keep pushing. It's gone on for years.
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Eben Richards
12 years ago
Once again it is a case of the will of the people against the money of the developers. Hopefully this time the will of the people will prevail?
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Cynthia Whitman
12 years ago
The BBOS is elected to represent the will of the people.
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Paul Gallis
12 years ago
I do not wish to turn Orange County over to developers, which is what the proposed revisions of the Comprehensive Plan would do.
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Gregory May
12 years ago
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The proposed changes to the current Comprehensive Plan should be rejected. They are a land developers' proposal, not a plan for economic development of the county.
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David Heyl
12 years ago
If one could take the time to poll all of Virginia’s Orange County citizens, I am certain that a very significant majority of them, across all socioeconomic, educational, and ethnic lines would want to preserve that which most closely touches their hearts about what makes the County special to them, today, in this era, mostly the way it is, mostly the way it has been. We waste a lot of time trying to define rural, as if a debate mired in the pages of Webster’s dictionary has anything to do with it. Those who have long lived here and want to preserve it, and those who have moved her because they lusted after it, know what Orange County’s rural character means to them. Whether we are Orange County residents in the more populated east, the more pastoral west, or the towns and villages in between, we know what Orange County is to us. It really is just very simple: I live here, you live here, and your neighbor lives here, because for the most part, we like it the way it is. And that “is” is, a community exhibiting predominantly rural characteristics, small town feel, locally nourished relationships, and fiscally conservative growth initiatives compatible with the resources that are uniquely available in Orange County. Efforts to grow our region in blind pursuit of an expanded tax base while recklessly ignoring the historic evidence that it will not reduce our tax burden is nearly criminal in its irresponsibility. To exchange what we all know is our rural community, however we personally and independently embrace it, for the failed remedy employed by virtually all of creeping suburbia, insults our good sense while steeling our treasure. The effort over the last several years to modify the Comprehensive Plan at this time (without just cause, absent any documented need, and with no surety of improvement in quality of life), and in this way (without significant input from an intelligent and informed citizenry), reveals a stark and depressing truth: the purity of the
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Pamela Jaske
12 years ago
Please listen to the people on this. You sem to be representing yourselves and not us.
Gordonsville, VA
"You don't know what you've got till it's gone"
Don't pave paradise to put in a parking lot.
Stave off the commercialization of Orange County. Preserve the rural lifestyle.
We moved here because it was rural. Keep it that way!!
The time has come to say no to sprawl and let our lovely rural county stay the way it is for future generations.
We must stop this absurd movement to ruin the culture of Orange County, please ad my name in support, thanks
Keep Orange rural!
Orange County is ripe for destruction by people who want to make money on the pastoral beauty that is Orange County. When it's gone, it will be GONE. The Comprehensive Plan was designed to preserve the rural character of our county. Not to destroy it.
Gordonsville VA
Somerset, VA
As I have stated previously, the word "infilling" as used in the A2 Category is just a soft word for sprawl. Support the many successful and growing forms of agriculture in Orange County -- our vineyards, nurseries, greenhouses,etc. Don't destroy what people come here for. I oppose the revised Comp Plan.
We already a half empty sprawling shopping center right down Route 3! Why do we need to encourage another?
This is a beautiful county and money and greed will ruin it. They just keep pushing. It's gone on for years.
Once again it is a case of the will of the people against the money of the developers. Hopefully this time the will of the people will prevail?
The BBOS is elected to represent the will of the people.
I do not wish to turn Orange County over to developers, which is what the proposed revisions of the Comprehensive Plan would do.
The proposed changes to the current Comprehensive Plan should be rejected. They are a land developers' proposal, not a plan for economic development of the county.
If one could take the time to poll all of Virginia’s Orange County citizens, I am certain that a very significant majority of them, across all socioeconomic, educational, and ethnic lines would want to preserve that which most closely touches their hearts about what makes the County special to them, today, in this era, mostly the way it is, mostly the way it has been. We waste a lot of time trying to define rural, as if a debate mired in the pages of Webster’s dictionary has anything to do with it. Those who have long lived here and want to preserve it, and those who have moved her because they lusted after it, know what Orange County’s rural character means to them. Whether we are Orange County residents in the more populated east, the more pastoral west, or the towns and villages in between, we know what Orange County is to us. It really is just very simple: I live here, you live here, and your neighbor lives here, because for the most part, we like it the way it is. And that “is” is, a community exhibiting predominantly rural characteristics, small town feel, locally nourished relationships, and fiscally conservative growth initiatives compatible with the resources that are uniquely available in Orange County. Efforts to grow our region in blind pursuit of an expanded tax base while recklessly ignoring the historic evidence that it will not reduce our tax burden is nearly criminal in its irresponsibility. To exchange what we all know is our rural community, however we personally and independently embrace it, for the failed remedy employed by virtually all of creeping suburbia, insults our good sense while steeling our treasure. The effort over the last several years to modify the Comprehensive Plan at this time (without just cause, absent any documented need, and with no surety of improvement in quality of life), and in this way (without significant input from an intelligent and informed citizenry), reveals a stark and depressing truth: the purity of the
Please listen to the people on this. You sem to be representing yourselves and not us.