If you have a chance, please read the eloquent letter of Mr. Edward E. Cunningham in Sunday’s Virginian Pilot (6/12) entitled “Cloudy Reasoning for Dredge Plan.” Mr. Cunningham has stated the case precisely. If I may quote:
1. Proposed site is zoned residential.
2. Adjoins a preservation district.
3. City’s intended industrial use not simply “a barge and an excavator.”
4. Up to 90 round trips by heavy duty dump trucks daily from site.
5. Neighborhoods may be balking at accepting a long term added real estate tax for the Special Service District.
5. City is balking at submitting Operation Plan to Virginia Marine Resources Commission for the project.
It is time for the City to acknowledge that project is critically flawed. The city’s dog just won’t hunt, no matter what his papers say.