Spotsylvania County is changing, and many residents do not like the direction their community is going. Communities, as well as people, can lose their way. My guess is that the philosophic misfit would exhort people to speak up. In fact, if Thoreau were still alive, he might show up at tomorrow's meeting of the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors and sit beside Agnes McGee, who for 50 years has been telling board members what she thinks. Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, he wrote, and never make an effort to get up.
People owe it to themselves and their communities to voice their views.
Among the local issues available for comment is a zoning request on the table tomorrow at a meeting of the Spotsylvania board. Payne Trucking Inc. is asking the Spotsylvania supervisors to reclassify 17.3 acres from a residential zoning designation to one that would allow heavy industrial activity. The allure of much-needed tax revenue could sway a majority of board members to vote in favor of the rezoning. There are opponents of the application, however, who point out the danger that 900 big trucks a day would pose to the 1,400 teen-agers at nearby Massaponax High School, about 600 of whom drive to and from school. But now that the school is in place, Rojek says, There is no need to further compromise our students by placing Payne Trucking in the same vicinity.