This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAC.2ACE/1004 Message Board Post: Reply Reply to all Forward Close Help    From:   Cronin, Michael W  Sent:   Wed 6/28/2006 1:56 PM  To:   stspradlin@hotmail.com  Cc:   clausonsu@hotmail.com  Subject:   Strong opposition to the location of the NS shipping facility  Attachments:  View As Web Page We are sending this strong protest to every member of the Board of Supervisors both because we are strongly opposed to locating the NS shipping facility in Elliston and because we were not informed that this was in the works so we had no opportunity to voice our opposition.  We bought in Elliston in 1979 and have lived here for 27 years. We have worked for the community in many ways( e.g., Karen is Editor of the Linc letter and we are major contributors to the various Meadowbrook community building projects). We value the quiet rural environment so much we created a ONE-ACRE butterfly garden on our property in Echo Hills. All this is threatened by the location of the NS shipping facility.  It guarantees major increases in truck traffic in this area. It guarantees major increases in traffic congestion on this portion of I-81 due to major increases in truck traffic. Even if the claimed decrease in overall truck traffic is true, it has NO BEARING on the guaranteed increases in truck traffic in and around the  shipping facility. It threatens major increases in polluted air and water due to all the truck traffic and all the additional paved areas replacing vegetated/forested land. It makes no sense to locate such a facility so close to a major school and right on a river.  Please block this action. Please think of those of us who moved here for the quality of life. And PLEASE THINK OF OUR BUTTERFLIES AND THE ELEVEN YEARS WE'VE PUT INTO CREATING THIS ONE-ACRE BUTTERFLY GARDEN IN ELLISTON.  Sincerely,  Michael and Karen Cronin 1260 Echo Hills Road Elliston,VA 24087