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2017
No year in review

Mega site mania magnifies lack

of county cooperation

Crossing Harrowgate Road af- safe with the railroad and the road?
ter parking at Harrowgate Elementary They don’t even know what industry
School, that will be torn down as part of will be coming. It bothers the jeebies
the East-West Freeway, those interested out of me.” Rothenberger lives on
in finding out more information than Treely Road.
what they were given at four commu- Many of the 150 people attending
nity meetings held by the county, gath- the rally had some way of being
ered in the sun Saturday on the lawn of affected by the 1,675 acre Megasite Curtis’s Pansy Giving Thanks at
Brad Wall. His house, like Harrowgate and the east/west parkway or the
Elementary could be taken for the pro- north/south road that would follow the Day special Thanksgiving
posed freeway. same route as developer HH Hunt had planting
Wall and other residents are not approved by the Chesterfield County Ollie Trizzino: “I’m thankful for marsh-
sure exactly how it will affect them. Planning Commission and the Board of Pansy Day at Curtis Elementary, a day mallows, cheese dip, and going to Opa’s
“It’s in my backyard,” said Laurel Supervisors in the 2006 Branner Station when every student plants a pansy or bulb, is a (German for Grandpa) house.”
Rothenberger. “Have they [the board residential rezoning of the same property day of beautifying the school grounds for the
members of the Chesterfield Economic of the same Mega site property. A Chester winter and early spring. Each grade filed out Bobby Brown: “I’m thankful to be able
Development Authority] bothered to community group were able to get some of the classroom with their pansy with shovel to celebrate with my family and that
take the time to see the impact on the concessions, but the property was rezoned and plant in hand, each ran to a planting bed, everyone is healthy and progressing in
scraped, scooped, and dug, then gently placed
residents? How can I know I will be to residential anyway. life.”
and covered the soil around its roots.

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