The current occupants of the BOS do not! They are otherwise motivated by something that makes them stark raving mad. They have to be mad to allow subdivision buffers to be placed on a single homeowners property and then to make that home owner responsible for maintaining 37 trees that have already died 3 times and a sidewalk that goes NOWHERE! ON HIS PROPERTY! Also a Comp plan that awards Developers and real Estate Agents, while straining the schools, the water system, and turning Hanover County into Henrico County, CROWDED!

And is no one paying attention to current events? As this planet changes to Global Warming, every citizen living within 100 miles of the costal regions are going to see changes in their living conditions as the sea level rises. 85% of the population of the United States lives in costal areas! GROWTH IN THESE AREAS IS NOT RECOMMENDED! And it’s not that far off, our children and their children will witness the results of Global Warming up close and personal. Or do we just throw caution to the raising wind speeds and continue to grow!
The Federal Government doesn’t even recognize there is a problem!

The current occupants of the BOS are people who couldn’t work a regular job, and no talent or skills but Rhetoric and political spin. Using the Republican handbook of just keep repeating the same wrong information until they believe it.

Sadly, unless someone runs against all of them, we’re screwed for another two or four years, whatever it is! THE SOLUTION is to vote them all out, put new well meaning people in who will in turn fire the Planning department and start all over with fresh ideas based on what the voters want! Alas only a couple of people have come forward to run and that isn’t going to do the job.

Community-based planning is the opposite of top-down, developer driven planning.
http://www.mc-mncppc.org/community/about/about_cbp.shtm

Here are ways in which Hanover County could be building the capacity for its citizens
to understand the comp planning process.

Effective Approaches for Getting the Word Out to Citizens:
http://www.mrsc.org/Subjects/Governance/Participation/Effective.aspx

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/tracker/fall2003/compplanset.html

The BOS has been given every opportunity to do the right thing and has failed every time. This comp plan isn’t the only wrong decision made. They have been bombarded with Facts and Science and Math only to throw all aside and keep the plan! What could be the motivation??????????

In the absence of sound decision based on facts, logic, and scientific data, corruption is the only answer! It is basic deductive reasoning!

Remember the old adage, “In for a penny in for a pound?” They can’t turn back now! It would open them up to bigger Legal question and dismantle the entire,”Good ol Boy”, network!

So what do we do; The answer is in the Declaration of Independence:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness….
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, IT IS THEIR DUTY, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

If you should get them to postpone the vote, it won’t be for further consideration, it will be well to string it out past registration for party candidates and maybe even the June date for independents! They win!

They say we are different, smarter than the animals because of our ability to reason. However, a good dog can recognize a threat and act on it quickly!!!

The fact that only Real Estate developers and agents were the only ones to praise the plan should answer anyone’s doubt about the motivation of this plan, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Corrupt people don’t just change; they have to be voted out!