In her OpEd today Mrs. Girvan stated that she was opposed to the Capital Ale incentives because they had already signed a lease and were coming here anyway. The truth, and it had been explained to Mrs. Girvan, was that Capital Ale was looking to locate in Charlottesville, Petersburg, or Fredericksburg. The lease she alluded to was contingent on the approval of the incentives package. Without the incentives package it would have been off to either Petersburg or Charlottesville.
I was surprised that Mrs. Girvan had to go so far a field looking for examples of incentive packages. All she really needed to do was look in her own back yard. They Spotsylvania Towne Center incentives package of $17.5 million over (20) years or the state incentive package for Rolls Royce totaling $58.6 million for a $100 million investment.
Finally, we are constantly hearing about the need for better planning and the need for a vision for the City. Yet we have yet to hear what kind of planning we need to be doing and have yet to hear Mrs. Girvan’s vision for Fredericksburg.
We have specific guidelines for incentives. What specifically would Mrs. Girvan like to see changed? How is her vision different from the Comprehensive Plan or the Council’s Goals & Initiatives that she helped draft? When do you think she will stop talking about planning and vision and start defining them?
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