tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38302185.post8380098692934952817..comments2021-11-15T10:27:19.397-05:00Comments on Gateway to Loudoun County: Reporting from the Dean South Region of Loudoun CountyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38302185.post-53064605657331900452011-03-31T14:12:05.931-04:002011-03-31T14:12:05.931-04:00Wish I'd gotten to read it unedited before you...Wish I'd gotten to read it unedited before you redacted it!<br /><br />I can guess where it may have come from though.<br /><br />No, Thomas Jefferson wans't born here, but he did write the Declaration of Independence, and was President, and so on. <br /><br />And it was not the THOMAS Jefferson district.<br /><br />The Dulles Airport was named after one of the Dulles bros. But it isn't named JOHN FOSTER Dulles Airport, and neither was the district, just as Dulles South Planning Area used to be part of the Mercer district, and neither the CHARLES FENTON Mercer, nor the MARGARET.<br /><br />I wait with interest to see which supervisor next uses the term "economic engine" in relation to the airport, as is often the case directly before a vote is taken to further hobble actual business development in the county.<br /><br />More lip service to reality.<br /><br />Barbara MunseyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38302185.post-48053610788171260722011-03-31T09:41:41.946-04:002011-03-31T09:41:41.946-04:00Here's a comment from "Anonymous" - ...Here's a comment from "Anonymous" - we've redacted it here at G2L, because it includes personal attacks...while person-to-person debate is great, personal attacks behind the veil of anonymity is not productive or acceptable.<br /><br />It's also too bad that the race card is even introduced in intelligent debate - this particular article is all about economic marketing ramifications.<br /><br />"Anonymous" says: "The motion was for Jennie Dean, not Dean, but though it ended up being Dean, everyone knows it was to honor Jennie Dean who clearly spent a huge amount of time in Loudoun and other places setting up chapels to train African-Americans. [Redacted] Let’s look at other names. Jefferson district is after Thomas Jefferson. He didn’t live here, wasn’t born here. Mercer (Mercer District) did live here, but wasn’t born here. John Foster Dulles (Dulles District). Wasn’t born here. Didn’t live here. Oh may three white guys who were not born here. [Redacted]"Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12116859700626015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38302185.post-45197287250451839332011-03-27T11:32:23.475-04:002011-03-27T11:32:23.475-04:00First, county research documents that it was Ms. D...First, county research documents that it was Ms. Dean's cousin who donated the land for the church, and that Ms. Dean was a resident of Prince William where she founded here famous trade school for freed slaves.<br /><br />The motion to name the district "Dean", and not "Jennie Dean" as announced, describes her as a Loudoun resident, and had some other historical inaccuracies easily remedied by using county resources.<br /><br />This is what leads me to feel that the effort was superficial at best, and a political stunt at worst.<br /><br />Other items in the redistricting process lead me to conclude that more than just removing the name of what many of our most non-business-friendly BoS members yet fatuously refer to as "our economic engine" is something that they wish to torpedo for the foreseeable future.<br /><br />The newly-configured/supposedly rural Blue Ridge district controls all E/W and N/S roads in the souther half of the county, through the preposterous arms snaking out to take Rte 50 all the way to the airport boundary, the entire 659 corridor, and the southern portion of Rte 15.<br /><br />Included in this is all of the rezoned/unbuilt mixed use in the Arcola corridor.<br /><br />The newly configued Broad Run district (fondly and aptly called by some "The Pink Amoeba") has the entire rail corridor, and all of the large rezoned/unbuilt mixed use and transit oriented development, including Moorefield Station, Kincora, One Loudoun, Dulles World.<br /><br />The incumbents in these districts are Burton and McGimsey, which should be horrifying to anyone who wants a road grid and business development that pays taxes.<br /><br />We have removed Dulles Airport from our map (literally, in drawing the Dean district--it is the only connective tissue attaching Loudoun Valley to the portion of Dulles South south of 50), and handed control of all transportation networks and commercial development to the two largest extreme ideologues on the Board.<br /><br />It is horrifying.<br /><br />Barbara MunseyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com