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When negotiation is best

COUNTY AND RESIDENTS BREAK OFF TALKS
WILL THERE BE TABLE TIME? NEGOTIATIONS PLANNERS MOVED TOWARD APPROVAL OF CASE
PROFFER REVIEW
BARD ASKS MORE QUESTIONS BEYOND NEGOTIONS PROFFERS SUBMITTED JUNE 21,
NOT SATISFIED WITH ANSWERS COUNTY TY WILL WORK WITH EDA 2007
PROFFER REVIEW
FOUR PUBLIC MEETINGS SCHED- STAFF REVIEW
ULED - EAST WEST FREEWAY TOPIC STAFF RECOMMENDATION CITIZENS ASK, “WHY NO
EDA DOES NOT WANT TO DEVULGE COMMUNITY MEETINGS ZONED RESIDENTIAL SEPT. 2007
WHO THE USER THE SITE. PLANNING COMMISSION PLANNING COMMISSION OKS AUG. 2007
RECOMMENDATION TO
CITIZENS ASK, “WHY NO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COMMUNITY MEETINGS
CITIZENS SLOW TO REAL- BOARD DECISION 2008 DEVELOPER ABANDONS
IZE THE MEGA SITE IS IN BARD BEGINS PROJECT LOSES OPTION, LEAVE
CHESTER NOT MATOACA TACTIC TO STOP RESIDENT/CUPD ZONING IN
CITIZENS CHESTERFIELD DEVELOPMENT PALACE
AUG. 28 CHESTERFIELD
CTY EDA ANNOUNCES MATOACA MEGA SITE BRANNERS STATION
1,675 ACRE MATOACA
MEGA SITE 2017 2007

COMMENTARY: TIME TO NEGOTIATE?

BY MARK FAUSZ, EDITOR’S COMMENTS
It was 1991 and I had taken a friends and work mates took me to an in with armored bulldozers to take down Solutions?:
consulting job in Israel. Myself and English pub in Tel Aviv. Early in the a village on the border. Rachel and her • Leave it alone?
two compatriots from here in Virginia evening the crowd was hushed and the friends lay in front of the machines to stop • Park same as leave it alone
lived and worked together managing the bartender announced the coalition forces them; when the dozers moved forward • Huge buffers and user
construction of about 600 American-style had taken Kuwait. We danced on the one of them crushed her to death. restrictions, no smoke stacks,
houses. The Israelis were building houses tables. She was a great activist, and I don’t polluters etc.
as fast as they could due to Russia’s An awful event and a parent’s worst want to diminish her name by using her • Same for road, buffers, and
Glasnost and the arrival of 12,000 Jews a nightmare happened some 12-years as a metaphor for being hard headed or safety precautions.
month into the country. later. While I was in the hospital in not knowing when to begin negotiating • Make sure East West
I worked in the small village of 2010, chatting with my doctor, Stephen for the best outcome; there was no Freeway R/W is delineated
Ofakim, about 20 miles east of the Gaza Corrie, and while watching scenes of the negotiation for Rachel. Jimmy Carter did and purchased now, no more
strip. Coats in the morning and t-shirts Arab Spring, he told me about his niece, that with much success in the Middle East cloud over landowner
in the afternoon. Each evening dinner Rachel Aliene Corrie, who was part of in 1979. property.
was eaten with the Israelis at Kabbuitz the protest group International Solidarity I’m not saying if I’m for or against Citizens should get what they want;
Galon and the conversation because of the Movement. the Megasite (I refuse to call it Matoaca), don’t wait until the ship has sailed. If you
Gulf War raging about 530 miles away. I felt a connection, however slim, I’m just worn out I guess. I think it’s time remember Branner Station – the Supervisor,
The scuds came and went and were fun because of knowing her uncle and to get into serious discussion. If you don’t Planning Commissioner and School Board
to watch from the hillside outside our knowing the place where she died. want it, you need to offer a solution. As Member – did most of the negotiating. Mike
guesthouse – I would rather be there than She and he friends were protesting some say, “it’s a done deal.” Do we know Sawyer and the Community Association
in a bomb shelter, a lot of space out there the lasted incursion by the Israelis into the what that deal is? Everyone is guessing. I negotiated a boulevard with a trail instead
to find my head. Gaza as retribution for firing a mortar into had my opinions but I’ve eased up on my of a five lane highway from West Hundred
On my 37th birthday my new found the Israeli airspace. They were moving own conspiracy theories. Road to Chester Road.

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