Last night was amazing!  Over 1000 Hanoverians turned out to voice opposition to the County’s proposed Comp Plan revisions!  The Hanover High School auditorium was SRO!  It was democracy in action and it made me feel so proud to live in Hanover County!  We still have to keep the pressure on - tell your Supervisor they need to send this Comp Plan Update back to the drawing table!  Citizen committees need to be formed and given as much weight as real estate developers!  The data used to create this revisions was flawed - tell the County to get its numbers right this time…so they don’t SUPERSIZE the SSA due to faulty math and logic!

See the article: Supervisors delay vote on Hanover land-use

Hanover County is about to approve a very reckless plan that is going to lead to higher taxes.  Over 1,000 citizens showed up for the Wed. hearing, this is 1% of the county’s population and yet there has been no follow up in your paper.  If 1% of Chesterfield or City of Richmond showed up for a hearing, it would get story after story.  Also, at this hearing there was info that citizens reported that deserves to be made know to the general public. There is a consultants report that has found the county to be basing its plan on flawed numbers, there was a letter from a developer who was asked by County Adminstration months ahead of the citizens for input into the plan, and emails from county staff working to recurit people to come out and support the plan.  Why has this not been reported?  Do County officials have more sway then the average citizne over what gets ink in your paper.  Frustration leads to cancellations.

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