Folks from near and far are observing the antics of the town; don’t be surprised if potential investigations of possible illegalities proceed. Most are aware that ethics have been violated, such as secrecy relegated to the need for FOIA requests.

Wingfield allows for, at least one scenario I know of, certain ‘buddies’ to build without proper set-backs, and even put driveways in without permits. I have proof; these are not just allegations. I confronted Wingfield with these facts as the project was started, and he would not address the issue. Let him leave.
Lance is not gone. He will continue to ‘run’ Christiansburg, via his cronies like Wingfield and his connections with developers and contractors.

Why would anyone want, for just one example, a $7 Million project to become a $17 Million pork-barrel pool on a hillside/hillslide, without clarity to all? That’s $10 million that is in question. An audit of all activities is due, even though a few feet were added to the pool, for instance of ‘change’ in plans. Activities have elevated to crimes against humanity and citizenship, if not worse.

We live in America, not just in Christiansburg and Blacksburg. If you like Communistic practices, maybe you should move to one of the infamous countries.

I know that a lot of people want things to be the way they have always been. That is not likely to happen when you have such extensive growth. Unless the residents of Christiansburg 15-20 years ago were involved in a massive cloning project, they could never hope to fill all the homes built in the last 10 years. That means people have to come from other areas to buy the homes, or the homes do not sell.

People coming in from other areas will have other expectations, values and beliefs. For communities to grow, there has to be some adjustments made. When State Laws changes, some adjustments have to be made. But, the future will tell.

I don’t know whose orders Randy was working under, maybe it was Town Council, maybe the Mayor, who knows? Whoever is responsible, it looks like a sneaky thing to do. Those very issues about emergency access should have been brought up while the Planning Commission was working on it. It should not have been information shoved through a knot-hole hours before a public hearing. The public has a right to know. That is the law. Laws cannot be simply ignored. If you don’t like them, work like the dickens to change them, but until they are changed, honor them.

While it may have involved only one brain cell, such status-quo actions of Wingfield are purposeful, usually negatively effecting residents.

We just might have a barrel of bad apples.

This prompted further questions of the development team by Mr. Huppert, that led PC to require a “tightening up” of the proffer language. What is really baffling though is that he just offered it up unprompted. Frankly, I don’t understand why. All this jabber about VDOT standards that C-burg is not even subject to in the first place, makes no sense. As you said, if it was so damn important that he was compelled to throw it out to PC, then why was it not included in the package to TC?

Now, at that point, I’m guessing everyone there likely became aware that they were in for another fight with the Sage Laners, so there is no telling what may have begun churning behind closed doors. I won’t attempt to speculate, but I will simply say that I find it strange that this info was available at the PC meeting on 7/12, but it took Mr. Wingfield until late afternoon of 7/20 to provide it to members of TC.

Sticking with what we do know happened, Mr. Wingfield, or planning office staff member, contacted the three chiefs of emergency services and asked for their opinion on connectivity. The question is, were they asked specifically about connecting through Sage Lane? From conversations I have had with two Sage Lane residents, both of whom claim they have spoken directly to Chief Sisson, that was not the question he was asked.

According to them, Chief Sisson stated that he was only asked about general neighborhood connectivity. He was apparently never asked directly about NR Village, Ivy Ridge, or Sage Lane, so therefore Mr. Wingfield’s statement about them “concurring on the Sage Lane connection” is inaccurate at best.The question is why?

Why did he not include it in the packet to TC? Why did he wait until 4:30pm the day of the public hearing to send the info to TC? Why did he falsify the opinion of the emergency administrators?

Here are the answers IMO:
1) It wasn’t included because it sparked an issue during the PC meeting, so he kept it under wraps.
2) He wanted it in as few hands as possible, and wanted to limit public blow back, as well as it would limit time for anyone to confirm the EA’s opinions.
3) Perhaps to mislead council. To sway their decision. It’s hard to say without knowing what went on behind closed doors.

Either way, bottom line, something here stinks! It comes down to two “I’s”; either Mr. Wingfield did it this way intentionally for an unknown reason, or he just completely botched the wording and therefore is incompetent. Regardless, since he doesn’t have the decency to resign, TC needs to show him to the nearest exit. That’s my opinion on the matter at least.