Another very important meeting will take place I am told, on September 5th, (that is this Friday) on Vance Neck Road….just north of Odessa.
This is a public (not political) meeting, although I am sure politicos will be on the sideline…
The venue is at the Crossroads Presbyterian Church… on Vance Neck Road…
Like Sussex County, this tiny meeting may determine our quality of life over the next century… At stake, is whether Delawareans want their lower New Castle County to become the next overgrown Bear, or whether they want a different rate of growth, one complete with all the advantages, but lacking all the headaches……
Elections are serious business. They determine the course of our future. What needs to happen at this venue on Friday night at 7:00….is that enough citizens show up, so that it will be equivocally clear that the “GO SLOW, GROW RIGHT” coalition is truly a powerful force to be reckoned with…. Everyone living in New Castle County (how I wish that were possible) needs to be at that location just to find out which politicians are on their side, and which are bought out by the developers…..
They then need to vote those stools out of office.
This should be a must=attend for anyone concerned with the quality of life of where they live…. You have always complained… so now, and here, is a chance to make your stand….
Which way are we going? You will decide……..
kavips 
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September 3, 2008 at 3:33 am
Nancy Willing
Great post. This stuff is so serious it makes me crazy that people aren’t connecting the dots.
I think that we should force the county to publish their meetings on teevee just like Wilmington’s City Council.
September 3, 2008 at 9:59 pm
rsmitty
This is aka “Workforce Housing.” I put this on Nancy’s blog already, btw. It is being attempted in Odessa, near Evergreen Farms (I think that’s the correct name – on Rt 299, barely west of town). Then, there are plans to make Boyd’s Farm (actual farm land right now) into this same type of development. Boyd’s Farm is the expanse of land that sits on about the SW corner of Boyd’s Corner Rd and US13. The current visual are the fields wrapped around and behind the old Park-n-Ride that comes up to that corner.
When you can’t get county council people to help you out, one of the better ways is to get DelDOT to refuse approval. Hopefully, that shouldn’t be all that difficult given that Vance Neck Rd has been denied improvement permits in the past. Without those, there should be no way this goes through. Then again, I have seen odd things happen with stuff like this, but Nathan is a time in the past. The biggest caveat on a DelDOT block is the temporary nature of it.
I’m not so sure, though, how successful getting DelDOT to do the same for Boyd’s Farm will be. That’s located right on a highway on one side, and a widening road to a big intersection on the other. That one will need some deeper thought.
September 3, 2008 at 10:02 pm
rsmitty
BTW, what county district does all this sit in? District 12. Keep an eye on District 6, as well, in this regard. The Bill and Bill team of south-of-the-canal have apparently been fairly easy going on this issue.
September 4, 2008 at 8:58 am
rsmitty
The news journal said the meeting was “tonight,” but posted the online article this evening, September 3rd.
***MAJOR FOLLOW UP!!! I have been alerted that this meeting is THURSDAY Night, the 4th! I don’t know if that is correct or not, but when I put the online article saying “tonight” together with that it will be in dead-tree print TOMORROW (Thursday), I’m wondering if it actually is the 4th and not the 5th! Need confirmation!!!
September 4, 2008 at 9:56 am
rsmitty
Hey…I found a good-detail article in the Middletown Transcript that confirms the THURSDAY, September 4th date. You may want to confirm yourself, but I’m thinking the 4th is the date.
September 4, 2008 at 10:03 am
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