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Listen to the Real Residents
In your article "Residents Pack Hearing on Rezoning Proposal" [Loudoun Extra, Oct. 6], several items were interesting and a few nearly funny.
First, every individual quoted in the article was not a resident of the area under review, or even of an area adjoining it. Residents of Purcellville, Blue Ridge and Leesburg were included, as well as Piedmont Environmental Council employees from Leesburg and Ashburn.
I was present for Monday night's hearing and spoke at it, and I witnessed the self-indulgent screaming in the lobby. It was primarily by western Loudoun residents, and I saw the lone sheriff's deputy on duty call for backup when the protesters continued to shout.
Second, as a Dulles South resident who has been receiving PEC leaflets for a year about this proposal, all with varying numbers of homes and cars, and varying numbers of exclamation points, I found the quote from PEC officer Ed Gorski to be quite humorous: "There was nothing specific to talk about," Gorski said. Well, that sure didn't stop PEC.
Third, the article closes with a quote from Andrea McGimsey of Ashburn, who is identified as being from the "nonprofit group" Campaign for Loudoun's Future -- whose Web site directs donations to the Piedmont Environmental Council. If the Campaign for Loudoun's Future was a real nonprofit, as opposed to simply being an unprofitable addition to the melee, its parent group would not be handling its money.
Further, although McGimsey still did not admit it that evening when sneering at the Planning Commission in her public remarks, she is PEC's eastern Loudoun field director.
In the eight years I have lived in Dulles South, every planning opportunity or service improvement has been vehemently opposed by non-residents and paid interest groups funded through PEC. The current issue is no different.
I attended the meeting to speak in support of planning and improvements, because if this area falls to continued by-right sprawl and attrition, the PEC may be happy in having created a wasteland, but the residents, as usual, will suffer. PEC apparently thinks we should suffer, as punishment for moving onto their driveway.
Barbara Munsey
South Riding
CPAM Is Foolhardy
As a concerned citizen affected by the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment for Dulles South, I was disappointed by Monday's Planning Commission public hearing.
