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Letters of Support

for the rural crecent, the occoquan reservoir watershed, PW Forest [National] Park and manassas National Battlefield park

  • Tanya Gossett, Superintendent, Prince William Forest Park

    Prince William Forest Park’s Congressionally-authorized boundary is coterminous with the Rural Area boundary…the precedent of opening the Rural Area to more intense development could affect the park for decades.

  • Our Coalition Letter to Board of County Supervisors

    Given the magnitude of the proposed changes, we urge the BOCS to follow through with a study as well as extend an invitation to Fairfax Water to provide a presentation at an afternoon BOCS meeting to review the concerns raised in its letter. Clean water is critical to the future of PWC.

  • Jamie Bain Hedges, General Manager Fairfax Water

    Given the historic investment and achievements already made by the watershed communities over the preceding five decades to improve and protect the Reservoir as a vital drinking water resource, and the magnitude of the Planning initiatives under consideration by Prince William County, a study through the Occoquan Basin Policy Board utilizing the Model is an essential input to the land use decision process.

  • Kurt DeSoto, Civil War Roundtable of D.C.

    Prince William County and its Board of Supervisors are the guardians of Manassas Battlefield for this generation and the ones to come, just as is the National Park Service. Allowing development of this location as proposed, some of which is historically part of the battlefield, is inconsistent with fulfilling your responsibility as stewards of this most hallowed ground.

  • Ken Burns, Florentine Films

    Letter to the Prince William County Board of Supervisors: I learned while making my documentary series The Civil War in the late 1980s-and again when I made my 2009 series on the history of the national parks-how crucial the preservation of our historic landscapes is, and I fear the devastating impact the development of up to 2,133 acres of data centers will have on this hallowed ground.

  • Roger L. Leturno, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

    I am writing you on behalf of the Department of the Chesapeake of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) to ask your support in preserving the integrity of the Rural Crescent farmlands and Manassas National Battlefield by turning down the Prince William Digital Gateway Comprehensive Plan Amendment.

  • Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton U.S. House of Representatives, 10th Congressional District

    I share the Superintendent’s concerns regarding the welfare of the Park, and the surrounding environment, ecosystems, and communities, and I urge you to judiciously and cautiously take the potentially irreversible negative effects into consideration when examining this proposal.

  • Delegate Dan Helmer Virginia House of Delegates, 40th District

    I hope that the Board will proceed extremely cautiously, fully understanding the impact that such development would have on the environment, traffic patterns, real estate prices, and the rural character of Northwest Prince William County.

  • Delegate Danica Roem Virginia House of Delegates, 13th District

    Op ed, Prince William Times As I’ve stated for years now, I oppose all data centers being built north or west of InnovationPark in Manassas, and especially data centers being built near either Conway Robinson Park or Manassas National Battlefield Park.

  • Brandon Bies, Superintendent, Manassas National Battlefield Park

    I believe that the intensive development of the Pageland Lane corridor is the single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades.

  • Kimball Brace Chairman, Prince William County Historic Commission

    …the Historical Commission desires to voice its opposition to any non-residential development adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park, such as data centers, industrial uses and large-scale commercial ventures, that may directly or indirectly negatively impact battlefield resources.

  • Barbara Byron Director, Fairfax County Dept. of Planning and Development

    As discussed in this letter, Fairfax County staff has significant concerns regarding the impacts that will accrue from adoption of this this CPA and encourages Prince William County to reconsider the proposal.

  • Ann Bennett, Sierra Club Great Falls Chapter

    Virginia is a destination for well over 20 million annual visitors who seek educational, historical and recreational activities at properties managed by the National Park Service. These proposals threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park and Prince William Forest National Park, the largest national protected area in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.

  • Michael B. Murray Chair, Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks

    Changing the County Comprehensive Plan to allow for more intensive development of the Pageland Lane corridor represents a significant threat to Manassas National Park.

  • Joseph Eaves President, Manassas Battlefield Trust

    Washington Post Op-ED: [Rezoning this land] is a grievous insult to those who sacrificed – particularly when there is available land in Prince William County that is already allotted for data centers.

  • Deshundra Jefferson, Montclair resident and former co-chair for the Potomac Magisterial District Democratic Committee

    The deeper one dives into this proposal, the less equitable it appears. Buzzwords like equity and inclusion are clearly being tossed around to make this more palatable – and easier to silence those in opposition.

  • Our Coalition: Letter to the Community

    The prospect of undermining the county’s comprehensive planwith piecemeal and unnecessary rezoning, especially when more appropriate and lesshistorically sensitive properties are available, is problematic on many levels. Once these lands are developed, they are lost forever.

  • Tracey Hansen, Montclair Property Owners Association

    The adverse impact of the Pageland Corridor on our local community will be irreversible, and for this, we respectfully ask that the PWC BOCS reject the CPA for the Pageland Corridor (aka the PW Digital Gateway) and any industrial rezoning of the Rural Crescent that would hurt our watershed and/or lead to the Bi-County Parkway.

  • Sarah Parmelee, Forest land Conservation Coordinator, Virginia Dept. of Forestry

    The proposed amendment does not describe how the project will avoid or mitigate the potential loss of key ecosystem services provided to Prince William County by both forested lands and open space agricultural land in the Proposed Study Area.