Remarks by Gary Blake Ross
95 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“Looks like I have to beat that horse. The industry does not need that extra time. This subject has been coming at them since before March. When you make a change like this zoning text amendment, if it is passed, will make, there are going to be a few oxes that get gored. either a landowner who thought they had five more years to consider selling their land to a developer or to a data center enterprise that thought they had two more years to line up their funding and submit their site plan. But I agree. with what I believe was the original intent of the motion, which is we are receiving and…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Uh, thank you. Uh, chair, I'm, I believe I'm hearing a lot of false choices presented and some straw men propped up here. Anytime the legislature makes a change of this type, property rights are affected. So if that's always true, this is not a special case in which property rights are being affected. This is just business as usual. That's what legislative changes do for property rights. So again, let me emphasize, this is not a special circumstance. This is an ordinary circumstance. There's no special victim here. All stakeholders. I am thinking of all stakeholders, including the ones in…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Commissioner Ross, go ahead. Commissioner Landrum and I, we spent quite a few hours together lately talking about planning business. And it's good that we're having a nice, strong debate right now. Okay, and with that said, I don't think that extending the deadline has the effect that he described. Extending the deadline would have that effect only if the number of applications that were being produced was limited or if the production of applications was halted at some point like tonight. But if we create... If we add another 90 days onto this window, we will get 90... The first set of…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I believe we should take a vote on the proposed amendment, Chair.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Just to echo that, point of information.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“The main motion before us now says 180 days. Gotcha. Otherwise, everything Scheifler said.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I'll arm wrestle Shufler for it, and the loser has to do it.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“All right. Yeah, I can take that on, but if Mark wants to spend less time with his children, he can do it.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“One motion for the clean ones, individual motions for things that need to be modified.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I'll point out that to get the word out to the public, if we're talking about ordinary residents, not businesses or whatever, about this action or any other, All we have to do is go talk to our supervisor's office and say, hey, there's something that we need to hold a town hall about, a public meeting about. I don't believe that in the way that I'm thinking about it, I don't believe that burden should rest solely on the shoulders of the planning office. They have statutory obligations that are enough of a burden already unless they just want to tell me I'm wrong. And with that said...…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I recommend opening the public hearing for all three items.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“All right, since we have no one else to speak tonight, I recommend we close the public hearing for the comprehensive plan amendment.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“Okay, I am going to make a motion and then after that I'll have a few words to say during the discussion part that comes after the second before we vote. Okay, the motion is I move that the Prince William County Planning Commission recommend approving the comprehensive plan map amendment CPA202600002 Prologis 66 Logistical Park. Second. The motion.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“If I may be recognized. If I may be recognized.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“Okay. For the rezoning, I recommend we close the public hearing on REZ 2026-0008.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“Okay. I move that the Prince William County Planning Commission recommend approving the rezoning application entitled REZ202600008 Prologis 66 Logistics Park subject to One, the Prince William County staff and the applicant agreeing upon a way to satisfy the fire and rescue station's needs and subject to the application's other unrelated proffers and conditions dated June 18th, 2026.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“Yes, for the rezoning side of this, tonight's business. This opens the door to a light industrial use that will be consistent with and in some cases less than the amount of traffic, noise, visual, air quality, watershed and other effects that were already approved by right by the existing zoning. This request doesn't dramatically alter the location's anticipated uses except by recognizing that past decisions have made residential use inappropriate and have made commercial uses difficult to implement successfully. With that in mind, we're asking for, been asked for permission to create what I…”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“I recommend we close the public hearing for special use permit SUP 2026.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026
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“All right. No speech this time except to refer to the things I said about the rezoning. I move that the Prince William County Planning Commission recommend approving the special use permit application entitled SUP 2026-00005 Prologis 66 Logistics Park subject to the Prince William County staff and the applicant agreeing upon a way to satisfy the fire and rescue station's needs and subject to the application's other unrelated proffers dated June 18th, 2026. Second. Thank you.”
Planning Commission · Jul 1, 2026