Today's Dailly News Record (09-19-2008) has a very interesting editorial from Jonathan Kiser, a Harrisonburg resident that begins as follows...

I don't necessarily agree with everything Jonathan says, for example,

But Jonathan provides lots of:

• specific observations of questionable development decisions in the recent past
• great principles for thinking about future development

I represent several builders and developers in this area, and thus I am often frustrated when I see the generic "stop growth and development" letters to the editor without anything behind them besides a desire for no growth.  Jonathan's editorial, however, is quite a bit more interesting because he is specific about past development decisions that he thinks could have been better, and he offers constructive ideas for development principles to be utilized as we move forward together as a community.

Definitely worth a read...click here!