could the developer kill the project from hell that the community can't?

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/developer-wants-strasburg-council-to-delay-vote-on-gas-station-rezoning/article_0d45ed6f-1b4f-547d-af3e-79d5f1ec9234.html

"Claytor previously indicated that rejecting the highway sign could cause developers to abandon the project."

• community concerns
• VDOT concerns
• phase two?
• 25 ft. high highway sign
• outdated (20 years old) traffic analysis
• emergency exit?
• crime concerns
• corridor h? (https://shenandoahalliance.org/project/corridor-h/)

Mayor Brandy Hawkins Boies asked if the trees could be removed, but Otis said they are on VDOT property and cannot be removed.

Council member Dane Hooser said "the design of the neighborhood was flawed from the start."

Council member Brad Stover said he wouldn’t interfere as long as the proffers are met. “I’m not going to dictate what you’re going to do with your commercial property,” Stover said.

Council member A.D. Carter IV urged a straightforward approach when the council votes, and asked members not to be side-tracked by residents’ wide-ranging concerns. “We have to be single-minded and say this is what it is, and this is what has been met,” he said. “Here it is.”

“I always thought phase one was residential and phase two was the commercial component,” Otis said. “To me, this is phase two. There is no development left to take place. Now is the time to do it.”

From the looks of it strasburg town government is trying to make the I-81 interchange at Route 55 the next south of the border.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/8557221010/

attribution: Doug Kerr and flickr

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Despite the mayor, town council, and town staff continuing their efforts to push ahead with this project, and despite the community's continuing opposition to it, this project may collapse of its own weight.