Excellent reporting, Adele. Thank you. Will anxiously await the report. Spotsylvania County has a number of data centers approved. In addition, the Spotsylvania Planning Commission will be hearing a request for a large project along Route 1 near Massaponax HS for 950 residential units among the buildings proposed.. Curious about the effects of these huge endeavors on our environment, water supply, health, and quality of life as well.
Kudos to FOR and the Sierra Club for hosting this informational meeting on Data Centers and to the Advance for covering this very important meeting. It was an excellent presentation. In my opinion this is a meeting that should have been held by our City Council and Planning Department staff. Locating Data Centers in our small historic downtown is not a new concept. The City has been involved in discussions for quite some time with a group of developers interested in building a Data Center on the Hylton property, which sits right next to the Royal Oaks Subdivision and goes all the way to Cowan Blvd. Data Centers are just one more project where the citizens in Fredericksburg have been left out of conversations that will have major impacts on their quality of life. Mr. Cywinski emphasized the importance of contacting your City Council representatives to voice your concerns. The young woman sitting next to me laughed and said "They don't give a s#*t what we think!" Sad, but true. Our present City Council has no interest in what the public thinks, but they are all ears when a developer or a lobbyist has something to say!
Excellent reporting, Adele. Thank you. Will anxiously await the report. Spotsylvania County has a number of data centers approved. In addition, the Spotsylvania Planning Commission will be hearing a request for a large project along Route 1 near Massaponax HS for 950 residential units among the buildings proposed.. Curious about the effects of these huge endeavors on our environment, water supply, health, and quality of life as well.
Kudos to FOR and the Sierra Club for hosting this informational meeting on Data Centers and to the Advance for covering this very important meeting. It was an excellent presentation. In my opinion this is a meeting that should have been held by our City Council and Planning Department staff. Locating Data Centers in our small historic downtown is not a new concept. The City has been involved in discussions for quite some time with a group of developers interested in building a Data Center on the Hylton property, which sits right next to the Royal Oaks Subdivision and goes all the way to Cowan Blvd. Data Centers are just one more project where the citizens in Fredericksburg have been left out of conversations that will have major impacts on their quality of life. Mr. Cywinski emphasized the importance of contacting your City Council representatives to voice your concerns. The young woman sitting next to me laughed and said "They don't give a s#*t what we think!" Sad, but true. Our present City Council has no interest in what the public thinks, but they are all ears when a developer or a lobbyist has something to say!