Take the low income apartments elsewhere! We do not want anymore low-life scum coming into Powhatan.. This use to be a quiet cozy county and now it has gangs and drugs all kinds of other nonsense.. At least where I am located I will never have to worry about having them next to me as I am in the middle of a lot of acreage that I would not sell for any prize…

too funny-cheap shot-these things are not a joke to most of us.

Right.
With the new BOS team Balzer needs a timeout to come up with an actual strategy for winning.

If you ask me(I know nobody did), the previous BOS Team was throwing the game on purpose and there was no real strategy other than maximize our development profits. Sorry I meant maximize the profits for the applicant(which is a entirely separate legal entity comprised of “us”) which we are only an agent of.

I’ve got a slightly different take Doc,

Balzer couldn’t get it rammed through before the outgoing board finished (like certain contracts were), because the spotlight was shining on it. One of the Planning Commission members had an election coming up, and 2 of the 5 BoS members were in tough re-election bids.

He knows he doesn’t have the votes now, so they are actually going to listen to the citizens and their concerns before proposing a revised version, rather than ignore the concerns and just resubmit the same plan and proffers laid out differently like he has done what ? 3 or 4 times ?

“Agree” well said. This is a sad day for Powhatan! We moved here from a beautiful Florida retirement community several years ago. Both our kids work and live very close by. I must be honest, we are talking about the possible move back to warmer weather.I have been married 46 years and my wife has never complained about anythnig political. Until now. Maybe we are getting old. I have grown to Love our home, friends, and support of our neighbors. But from what we see, we can do better. The schools are a shame, the local government is a good ole boy site for sore eyes and these bully tactics are not what we voted for. Now this apartment mess. What’s next?

Yeah, and blame this wrongly on the County Administrator too. The three stooges seem to be very good at that.

Dr. Loveless, you are da man! Maybe they (Larry, Moe and Curly) should have a meeting about a week before hand, get a plan of action together, NOT tell the other 2 members about it and then move forward. That seems to be working real good in the county so far!

Sounds like Balzer is trying to work with groups to me.

So true, Doc.  So true.  Tommy Balzer is going to have to get used to not getting his way all the time in Powhatan.

Mr. Goodman should have written the following:

“The purpose of this deferral is El Foldo because we know that we do not have three votes on the Board of Supervisors at this time.  The applicant will address substantive and technical issues that may help curry favor with the Republican Committee, and we plan to have meetings with various influential Republican figures before submitting the revised application.”