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PROTECT HANOVER! Please sign this Petition to tell the Hanover Board of Supervisors to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request scheduled for a public hearing on May 6, 2020.
Who? Governor Ralph Northam and Hanover Board negotiated a SECRET deal to gift 6.77 million of YOUR state and local tax dollars to a New York billionaire family business.
What? Wegmans wants to build a Pentagon-sized truck terminal with 1,200 truck trips per day.
When? Construction starts ASAP and facility runs 24 hours per day for 365 days per year.
Where? Sliding Hill & Ashcake near 10 major subdivisions and seven local schools.
Why DENY? A vote to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request:
- Saves our roads (95, 295, Route 1, Route 301) from constant traffic jams
- Saves our tax money for Hanover schools & students and County employees
- Saves our local environment, wetlands, wildlife habitat, and historical features
- Saves the quality of life, health, and home values of thousands of local families
- Saves our tax money for road improvements in Cold Harbor & Mechanicsville
- Saves our tax money for extending internet access to Beaverdam & South Anna
- Saves our agricultural-zoned land in rural Hanover from more industrial creep
Summary: The Wegmans deal is a BAD DEAL and this site is a BAD SITE that sets a BAD PRECEDENT for anybody who lives in any district that faces future industrial development.
What Can I Do? Please sign this Petition to tell the Hanover Board of Supervisors to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request scheduled for a public hearing on May 6, 2020.
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Updates
April 29, 2020
We just hit 500 signatures on this petition. The road ahead feels incredibly long and the opposition is stubborn but I am not stopping now.
Reached 500 supporters
April 27, 2020
April 25, 2020
The days are long and the opposition is dug in deep. We need to hit five hundred signatures before the meeting to prove this is not just noise. Please push this out to your neighbors tonight because we cannot afford to lose momentum now.
Reached 100 supporters
April 21, 2020
April 20, 2020
The grind is exhausting but we are nearing one hundred signatures and need to maintain this momentum. We cannot let the board ignore our opposition when they meet to decide the fate of our neighborhoods. Please get this in front of others because we need to show them that we are not going away.
7 Comments
Ridiculous waste of tax money. We need that cash for our own roads and schools not for some ny billionaire.
1200 trucks a day? Are they crazy?? That is going to ruin the air quality for all the kids at the schools nearby. Keep big industry away from our homes!
Keep Hanover rural. Stop the industrial creep!
My kids walk to school near there. This is a massive safety hazard. The board needs to listen to the people who actually live here.
Total incompetence by the board of supervisors. Secret deals behind our backs? Deny this now.
Wegmans has failed to use best practices to design its proposed distribution center as compared to its local and regional competitors and as compared to its own similar facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. Wegmans proposed distribution center is located too close to human habitation. Wegmans will endanger the health of many Hanover County residents due to diesel particulate matter pollution, noise pollution and light pollution which are all known to have ill effects on human health. Wegmans will endanger the welfare of many local Hanover County residents due to the risk of serious truck accidents and the decline in property values due to the nuisance of exponentially increased truck traffic and noise issues with backup beepers, trash compactors, and multiple rooftop air conditioning units. Wegmans is also endangering the local animal population which will be displaced from 217 acres fenced with barbed wire. Those animals will also present an added risk to homeowners as the animals seek new shelter in the local area. There will be more car accidents with displaced deer.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
PROTECT HANOVER! Please sign this Petition to tell the Hanover Board of Supervisors to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request scheduled for a public hearing on May 6, 2020.
Who? Governor Ralph Northam and Hanover Board negotiated a SECRET deal to gift 6.77 million of YOUR state and local tax dollars to a New York billionaire family business.
What? Wegmans wants to build a Pentagon-sized truck terminal with 1,200 truck trips per day.
When? Construction starts ASAP and facility runs 24 hours per day for 365 days per year.
Where? Sliding Hill & Ashcake near 10 major subdivisions and seven local schools.
Why DENY? A vote to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request:
- Saves our roads (95, 295, Route 1, Route 301) from constant traffic jams
- Saves our tax money for Hanover schools & students and County employees
- Saves our local environment, wetlands, wildlife habitat, and historical features
- Saves the quality of life, health, and home values of thousands of local families
- Saves our tax money for road improvements in Cold Harbor & Mechanicsville
- Saves our tax money for extending internet access to Beaverdam & South Anna
- Saves our agricultural-zoned land in rural Hanover from more industrial creep
Summary: The Wegmans deal is a BAD DEAL and this site is a BAD SITE that sets a BAD PRECEDENT for anybody who lives in any district that faces future industrial development.
What Can I Do? Please sign this Petition to tell the Hanover Board of Supervisors to DENY the Wegmans Rezoning Request scheduled for a public hearing on May 6, 2020.
Updates
April 29, 2020
We just hit 500 signatures on this petition. The road ahead feels incredibly long and the opposition is stubborn but I am not stopping now.
Reached 500 supporters
April 27, 2020
April 25, 2020
The days are long and the opposition is dug in deep. We need to hit five hundred signatures before the meeting to prove this is not just noise. Please push this out to your neighbors tonight because we cannot afford to lose momentum now.
Reached 100 supporters
April 21, 2020
April 20, 2020
The grind is exhausting but we are nearing one hundred signatures and need to maintain this momentum. We cannot let the board ignore our opposition when they meet to decide the fate of our neighborhoods. Please get this in front of others because we need to show them that we are not going away.
7 Comments
NO! We do not need a huge truck terminal right by our subdivisions. Traffic is bad enough already.
Ridiculous waste of tax money. We need that cash for our own roads and schools not for some ny billionaire.
1200 trucks a day? Are they crazy?? That is going to ruin the air quality for all the kids at the schools nearby. Keep big industry away from our homes!
Keep Hanover rural. Stop the industrial creep!
My kids walk to school near there. This is a massive safety hazard. The board needs to listen to the people who actually live here.
Total incompetence by the board of supervisors. Secret deals behind our backs? Deny this now.
Wegmans has failed to use best practices to design its proposed distribution center as compared to its local and regional competitors and as compared to its own similar facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. Wegmans proposed distribution center is located too close to human habitation. Wegmans will endanger the health of many Hanover County residents due to diesel particulate matter pollution, noise pollution and light pollution which are all known to have ill effects on human health. Wegmans will endanger the welfare of many local Hanover County residents due to the risk of serious truck accidents and the decline in property values due to the nuisance of exponentially increased truck traffic and noise issues with backup beepers, trash compactors, and multiple rooftop air conditioning units. Wegmans is also endangering the local animal population which will be displaced from 217 acres fenced with barbed wire. Those animals will also present an added risk to homeowners as the animals seek new shelter in the local area. There will be more car accidents with displaced deer.
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NO! We do not need a huge truck terminal right by our subdivisions. Traffic is bad enough already.