That’s a quote taken from a multi-column letter to the editor written by an associate with Kimley-Horn, the environmental engineering firm behind Indigo Dunes.

Another quote is When we are done, the site will have nearly four more acres of functioning tidal wetlands than it does now.

According to their newest Joint Permit Application filed a couple weeks ago, in “App Part 2, page 35 [find at previous link], “Impacts to RPA Buffer Areas”, modifications will result in the loss of approximately 13 acres of RPA buffer area.

So they want to replace ~15 acres of functioning wetlands/RPA with 4 acres!

And the letter also includes the quote In the end we are confident that both regulators and judges, in response to any lawsuits that are filed, will agree that what we have proposed…

This letter to the editor speaks to regulators and judges.

Certainly the gentleman who wrote this knows the City of Virginia Beach is Appealing, in court, the Virginia Marine Resource Commission decision on Indigo Dunes.
[Background from August 15th 2007.]

The article is not online yet except most likely in the E-Pilot. You can read it in today’s Hampton Roads section on page 10.