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Monday, September 6, 2010
I wonder if I should stop 22.
At the next Planning Commission meeting, I wonder if I should do my part to stop any further progress toward increasing the allowable density in the Center City area to 22 units per acre. This would mean not even endorsing a “watered down” version at 14 as some have argued would be a plasible alternative.
Friday, March 9, 2007 | Posted by
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From an article in The Daily Press Opinion, by Carol Capo, Associate Editor
Welcome to town - Higher density would be right at home in parts of Williamsburg February 26, 2007
With make-believe towns popping up everywhere from Newport News to rural Suffolk, it’s helpful to remember that there are, among us, real towns. In addition to - or instead of, in some cases - building imitations, which are really subdivisions in town garb, we need to be doing everything we can to protect these real towns and help them not just survive, but thrive.
The city of Williamsburg is a case in point. It has been a town, a center of population, commerce, education and government, for more than 300 years. Today, thanks largely to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, it has reclaimed much of its once-tarnished charm and once-neglected history. It is alive and flourishing, if imperfect. It’s going about its business of being a town, as well as a tourist destination.
Monday, February 26, 2007 | Posted by
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A friend gave me the following letter to the editor in The Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It seems that I am not the only one concerned about a university expanding and destroying their neighborhood. If you read the article and insert “College Terrace” whenever the autor writes “College Heights” I could have written it myself.
Monday, February 5, 2007 | Posted by
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We on the Williamsburg Planning Commission have begun implementing the recommendations put forth in the 2006 Comprehensive Plan. A part of the implementation process has been reviewing the allowed density of the Center City area from 14 units per acre to 22. A grass-roots group has popped up that opposes 22 units per acre. They call themselves “Stop 22.” Here is why I dislike their organizational approach.
Thursday, January 25, 2007 | Posted by
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The updated Comprehensive Plan for the City of Williamsburg has called for increasing density in the downtown area. A citizen recently took the Commission to task over this issue, saying it will bring many unforseen problems. I came across the following quote that seems to me to have some relevance. - Joe
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | Posted by
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