HOA Roundtable

    Pete Candland is already ensnared in a recall effort launched by his constituents because Candland elected to cash in on the Data Center Boom to the tune of $5 to $10 million, and now the problems multiply with a constituent who is claiming his comments on an official Facebook page of the Gainesville Supervisor were suppressed because they were critical of Candland. All are encouraged to make their own judgments -- read the fill article. https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/candland-faces-a-federal-lawsuit-alleging-he-blocked-a-constituents-comment-on-facebook/article_c50e9866-092b-11ed-aeef-5b5281564b73.htmlCandland faces a federal lawsuit alleging he blocked a constituent's comment on Facebook  

There is an old adage in politics that you just have to follow the money to find the truth. The money flowing into Prince William County from some of the wealthiest multi-national corporations on the globe is unprecedented, and it has exposed the ugly underbelly of how money corrupts public officials and community leaders. Gainesville District Supervisor Pete Candland, who had previously pledged he would fight "tooth and nail" against the destruction of the Rural Crescent by developers to protect the families who elected him to office, has come under fire from his constituents because he set aside his commitment to them to sign a contract with data center operators for somewhere between $5 to $10 million for his lot. County Chair Ann Wheeler, immediately after getting elected, started making large investments into data centers and companies that supply them to take advantage of the data center boom that she knew was being proposed as a "target industry" by county st...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors is considering the most dramatic change in its land use policy in three decades, and if five members of the Board agree it will jettison the long-standing Rural Crescent policy that protected the rural character of our community and preserved of some of the most pristine land areas in the County. One data center project proposed along Pageland Lane, called the Prince William Digital Gateway, will pave over historically sensitive battlegrounds, likely desecrate graves of soldiers and enslaved African Americans, and forever destroy the view shed of the Manassas National Battlefield Park. On the east side of the County, the industrial corridor roads required for the construction of the dozens of data center projects already approved for construction will create the Outer Beltway for truckers to take the short cut from I-95 up into the Dulles Airport corridor. Gridlocked traffic; 18 wheeler noise; unsafe roads; a prescription for disaster for...