Spotsy Board of Supervisors Vote 6 – 0 Against Chancellorsville Project

Hip hip hooray guys. Now the alternative comes into play, and Mullins is going to max out that development according to the zoning he already has.

“We thought we brought a good project to the county. That’s all I can say right now,” he said.

The decision clears the way for landowner John Mullins to develop his property as zoned–businesses on 55 acres and 225 homes on the rest.

Chancellorsville was a great project in a very bad location. If it were located towards Spotsylvania Courthouse or in some other non-historic location, I really believe that it could have passed. If I were Mr. Mullins, I’d be the first one out there with a bulldozer to start plowing the 38 acres of historic land.

It’s a tough call to make. Do you allow the 2,000+ development to be built and preserve the park land, or do you vote it down for a 255 home development that will not only destroy the historic property, but may even be specifically designed to make traffic worse along the Rt. 3 corridor? What a tough call to make – I can understand why Gary Jackson wanted to abstain. Then again, Dogwood Development had quite some time to get its ducks in a row and chose not to. C’est la vie. . .