{"id":7252,"date":"2015-10-28T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2015-10-28T08:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:52:30","slug":"open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/open-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"open for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7253\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151019-Louisa-County-supes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151019-Louisa-County-supes.jpg\" alt=\"public comment timer\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151019-Louisa-County-supes.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151019-Louisa-County-supes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151019-Louisa-County-supes-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">October 19, 2015- Louisa County Board of Supervisors approved a conditional use permit to allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/HE148mSWpjp\" target=\"_blank\">open pit mining<\/a> of vermiculite<br \/>\n in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grsp\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Green Springs National Historic Landmark District<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe applicant for the zoning change is admired community wide as a good man.<br \/>\nThe mining company has, in the past, done award-winning reclamation of a mining site.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; What the hay?<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the decision to grant the CUP are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecentralvirginian.com\/county-approves-green-springs-mining-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\">web<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo cover the subtleties, the principal actors, the hard choices, the layers of compromise,<br \/>\nthousands of words and a fearless newspaper would be required.<br \/>\nThe Louisa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisacounty.com\/LCcommdev\/CompPlan.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Comprehensive Plan<\/a> executive statement, vision and goals recognize the national significance of the Green Springs district.<br \/>\nThe Louisa County zoning code allows for the refusal of a CUP if it is not compatible with the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>But what the hay.<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian","category-culture","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}