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The Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) ignored the pleas of the citizens they represent and just turned the keys of the County over to multi-national data center companies who are committed to turning our residential communities into an industrial center of decay - the quality of life destroyed, the health of our families threatened, and the value of our homes plummeting.
Just over a year ago, the Oak Valley HOA and 10 individual plaintiffs sued the BOCS over their approval of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) that paved the way for PWDG re-zoning. That challenge is currently winding its way through the courts and is only the first salvo in a battle to preserve the quiet enjoyment of our community that we call home.
The unexplainable attack on our homes and families with the BOCS vote to approve the PWDG land grab is the second front in that legal battle that will directly challenge to the recent re-zoning vote. In the rush to ram this approval through, the BOCS made a number of substantive and procedural errors and completely ignored state statutes and county land use ordinances in the PWDG re-zoning process. Our legal team leading this effort will file complaints against the BOCS and ask the court to review all of those issues—both substantive and procedural--as part of our challenge to Digital Gateway re-zoning vote.
This challenge is not for the faint of heart. Litigation is never a sure thing. It can be slow. It can be time-consuming. And it will be expensive. But we firmly believe in our position as we undertake this next phase of the fight to protect ourselves.
Oak Valley is just 254 families who are ready to stand up to the bullies who corrupted the rezoning process, and we desperately need your help -- from any and all who are able to contribute financially to this critically important legal effort. We are carefully managing attorney fees (supervised by a committee of volunteer attorneys and supported by great community volunteers who do legal research), especially compared to the international law firms that the data center developers have retained to argue on their behalf. But we have the advantage of being right on the issues and we need to make our best case in the courts.
If you are interested in joining this critically important fight to protect our homes and our families, please donate to our Legal Defense Fund for this important fight.
We appreciate every contribution to help with this important legal defense of our community. Here is how to make your contribution:
Write a check to the Oak Valley HOA. Please write the following on the memo line of the check: "LDF-Oak Valley”.
Then, please mail your check to the following address:
Sequoia Management for Oak Valley HOA
13998 Parkeast Circle
Chantilly, VA 20151-2272
Questions should be directed to: Mac Haddow at: mhaddow1@verizon.net
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