Landowner has “green” vision for VRE site

Does this speech come with a script, and if so, can we count Fitz Johnson as another member of the County’s FOCUS GROUP, without minutes, and among the anonymous “77 Citizens” who are developing strategies on how to best develelope a high density population (UDAs) along and on both sides of Rt.17, around a train station, that still lacks any kind of transportation impact analysis, cost of constructing necessary transportation infrastructure or how close your neighbor will get with the thousands of UDA housing prospects already designed and ready to be built out by TRICORD, Cosner and Silver?

Dan, since you’ve been supplied with the identity of the anonymous 77 citizens, refered to in recent County working docfuments, is there any way you could bring this information to the public trough, without interfering with your busy schedule? How can we connect dots without this public information that Spotsylvania County is reluctant to hand out, or is this information considered privledged and outside the rules covering Freedom of Information in Virginia?

Perhaps the only thing green about this project is what’s now lining Fitz’s pockets, courtesy of the Spotsylvania taxpayer. I’m all for making profits but not at taxpayers’ expense.

Larry: if you had attended any of the open meetings with VRE on the table, all you had to do was turn your head to the back of the room and you would have seen Mr. Johnson standing close to the County’s elected officials and STAFF..

What I don’t get is you, painting yourself as a member of the public that got left out of the loop. This information was made available to you three years ago and of late, March 31,2010. Even you and Bill had a moment of conscience then, on how BOS officials and staff were making ZONING decision through their “Consent” agenda, and without public knowledge.

The County now has a ZONING Administrator who is in total charge of making zoning decisions without the details, and with the BOS’ recently changed zoning amendment, for the sake of expedience…sort of like a “rocket docket” where you navigate by instinct…and pushing through zoning decisions to accommodate the DEVELOPMENT communities vested interested and intentions to build out UDAs to the tune of thousands of new homes in Lee’s Hill District and Spotsylvania County. It’s bad enough that the Zoning Administrator is the NEPHEW of BOS Supervisor Emmitt Marshall. County history still accounts for the notion that elected leadership in County business is all about FAMILY.

By now Larry, you should be well on your way to figuring out what’s been going on behind closed doors for decades. Happy hunting.

Let me know what you find out and whether your findings are as well informed as your previous contributions and insights on this blog site. If you’re asking someone to fill in the blanks for you I suggest you connect a few more dots before drawing any conclusions.

Dan – thanks. Looks like Mr. Johnson correctly identified a parcel of land that had future potential!

I guess the “green” comes from the idea that future homes around the station will be within walking and biking distance?

“green”….walkable…bikeable, transit, LID ( low impact development runoff sequestering), yadda yadda

Of course… the county did try to “encourage” Green and were so successful at it that it scared the pants off of them, and set other taxpayers hair on fire… eh?

You think developers would like the county to offer incentives for new “green” developments like Mr. Johnson might be talking about?