Next week: Kalahari, budget, apartments in Celebrate Va.

Bring it on… Kalahari will be the best thing to hit Fredericksburg since the blizzards of 2009/2010. Celebrate Virginia is a joke in itself. Celebrate VA north in Stafford County is nothing but a struggling bunch of stores that may as well close their doors, which many have already done. A four lane parkway that leads back to a golf course and basically nothing else. Promises from a developer to bring restaurants and convenience to southern Stafford residents. Well, most of us who live in the Route 17-North corridor just preferred to go to Central Park… we liked our wide open spaces and less traffic. Tear down the shopping center, the Wal Mart, the Lowes and everything else that has attempted to turn southern Stafford into route 3. Give us back the open spaces. We do not need the congestion.

Then be prepared to pay more real estate taxes if you want services. The city residents have long lived off the cashcow that Central Park is. The businesses /commercial revenue and taxes it creates are what keep your real estate taxes the LOWEST TAXES OF ANY CITY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. (look it up) Look at your surrounding counties and see what suburban taxes look like with less commercial bases. Pick your poison. Lastly, don’t criticize growth unless your relatives have always lived here, otherwise you or your relatives were “outsiders” who moved here as well.

Why don’t we just relive another episode of the North vs South? Locals vs outsiders. Suburban vs Rural. Let’s leave the well dry and see how well off you and your neighbors get. Live off all the open spaces your elected officials can save for you, without imposing on their working agenda to bring high density populations to your door step, whether you like it or not. If you care so much about small, quiet and affordable, what do you intend to do about it?

Whining doesn’t pay the bills. If you are so concerned about spraw, why did your elected official decide to join VRE without you knowing anything about VRE? The idea was, that if you have a train station, Stafford brings more good paying jobs to the region, and removes more commuter traffic from the I-95 corridor. That investment also turned sour but who knew. Yes, Celebrate Virginia is a joke that we stopped laughing at or about years ago.

What do we intend to do about that? Find a funding source along lines of a bottomless pit . Where do you find that kind of money? Check your wallet.

Simply said, you and every person or family who wants more of the past than the present are living in the wrong corridor. In ten years you won’t even know what your front door step even looks like.

Harsh? Very? Can we make it go away? NO. Unless we decide to become more involved with reality than emotions we don’t stand a chance. Kalihari is a distinct POSSIBILITY. Maybe we’ll be able to get some free tickets on their Merry-GO-Round.

How come I can’t get booking on this as Marty Work says, or Mavrick says?