The battle to stop a "secret" mega-industrial complex in the heart of an agricultural and forestry district rolls onward. A group of neighbors, most living in the heart of the proposed nightmare on Parish Road, met tonight to vent, share recent conversations with board members and work on strategies to stop this taxpayer funded land sale and rezoning. The supervisors, with the secret out, are scrambling to spin the glories of this boondoggle but are meeting with little success from local residents(although they claim otherwise).
The only ones I've spoken to that like this crazy idea are the one that seem to want Louisa to look like an urban or suburban area. Our group consensus was, they should consider moving to Richmond, C'ville or Northern Va. What they seem to want is already there. We live here to avoid that. Sorry it doesn't meet your tax base strategy. You only need a high tax rate if you have to pay for lots of services.
More is not better, it's just more. Growth does not have to mean more. Cancer is uncontrolled growth, growth for the sake of growth. Plants and animals all grow but only when that growth is out of control does life fade away. Louisa needs planned, thoughtful growth. This is a knee-jerk reaction and money grab by some already rich players, not thoughtful, sustainable growth. We can do better, we don't have to just do more.
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