Make developers turn their boards into reality

Date published: 11/27/2002

Sue Connors was correct in her concerns and comments about development ["Don't believe pretty drawings of Dogwood's Chancellorsville," Nov. 13]. We've seen this pattern over and over--the "artist's conception" that bears little or no resemblance to the ultimate project.

I'd like to issue a challenge to The Free Lance-Star. Search through your archives and retrieve the "artist's conceptions" of both Gateway Village and Central Park.

Use your award-winning photographic resources to capture those same views as they exist today. Then publish them for all of us to see: what we were promised vs. what we got, compared, visually, side by side.

If the newspaper won't take on the challenge, perhaps a group of journalism students or a government class might accept it.

Once we've seen these comparisons, I suspect we'll all graphically observe that it's time to start talking about how we go about holding the developers' feet to the fire and demanding they deliver as promised.

Terry Reeder

Fredericksburg

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Date published: 11/27/2002