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Growth is not an enemy if it is planned well with the community.
Mark DiLuigi
Aldie
Our Heritage Slips Away
Blink, and you may not recognize the familiar green, rolling Loudoun County surroundings of last year, or last week for that matter.
The sellout of our uniquely beautiful landscape seems to indicate that some factor besides the best interest of citizens must be at work behind the scenes.
Our natural resources and landscapes have been parted like a great sea, making room for compromised housing, asphalt and many thousands more automobiles stalled in gridlock, placing at risk not only our environment but human health.
Clearly, goals are not shared. There appears to be no sense of moral responsibility to the land, heritage or the health of our families.
While some developers are quick to assert that environmental advocates do not wish people to have housing, the notion is ridiculous and a distraction from the issue at hand. Reasonable and sensitive planning is and should be the issue.
Where are the advocates, the elected officials to ensure that "smart growth" principles are employed?
Our local candidates vowed that their most important agenda was "smart growth." Clearly, that is what the voters demanded and thought they were getting. How did our goals become unshared? What was it that allowed our elected officials to depart from their commitments?
How did Virginia's heritage become a "last" priority?
Finally, the state of Virginia draws up a plan to connect land use with transportation. Everyone should support this bold and necessary change to the way we conduct business in Loudoun and across Virginia.
Loudoun has had a certain vernacular based on its early agricultural heritage. That look should be maintained. The homogenization of the country is the elimination of our soul.
We now go from one town to the next with little knowledge of being in a different place except by the name on the map.
We are not in Anywhere, U.S.A. But we could be in a blink.
Missy Janes
Middleburg
