Resident Warns Supervisors of Safety Risks on Mountain Road

To Warren County Board of Supervisors:

I have been talking to you since January about the liabilities of building 63 new homes at the end of a single lane gravel road on a mountain with blind hills, with only one way in and out, and an aquifer that can’t handle it and will cause wells to run dry.

Yesterday I found a cat lying on the road. I stopped, but it had apparently been just killed by a vehicle that had just left it there. All I could do was move it to the side of the road, leave a note, and say a prayer.

You’re lucky it wasn’t a day when there was a Board of Supervisors meeting, or I might have brought that beautiful dead cat in to show you. Maybe that would have gotten your attention when nothing else has. Next time, it will not be someone’s pet that gets killed. It is only a matter of time before people will be killed or severely injured from all the additional residential and commercial vehicles flying down that one-lane road with many blind hills. It is not a question of if, but when, there will be a head-on collision on that road. The only question is how bad it will be. Will it be deaths or just severe injuries, totaled cars, and trucks?

You are aware of it and allowing it to happen, so you will be responsible for it.

You say there is nothing you can do about it, but you can. Don’t issue building permits if they create hazardous conditions. Period. That is your responsibility, and you are responsible for the death and injury that occur because you allow it to. The time to stop it is now.

Kathleen Mancini
Warren County, VA

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