Thousands Of Residents
Can't Be Wrong: There's
a battle raging along Shore
Drive between residents and
developer L.M.Sandler & Sons
over the proposed Indigo
Dunes development. Both sides
have created Web sites to
make their cases: www.indigodunes.com and www.noindigodunes.com.
The proposed development
would add more than 1,000
homes to an already crowded
Shore Drive. It also takes
69 acres of open space, threatening
a fragile ecosystem of trees,
woody vegetation and wildlife.
The Sandlers say the development
would generate revenue to
pay for improvements to Shore
Drive. Making a problem worse
shouldn’t be part of
solving it. The developer
recently received a second
delay of the Virginia Beach
Wetlands Board hearing. The
delay tactic is partly due
to thousands of residents
and land owners who've joined
forces to state as clearly
as possible to the mayor
and city council, that they
do not want this development
to happen. With that kind
of citizen will power, the
development would not get
my support.
