THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 21, 1996 TAG: 9601200116
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Editorial
SOURCE: John Pruitt
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Today's cover story offers encouragement that Suffolk officialdom is willing to listen to citizens on a vital issue: how the city is to look in the future and how we'll get there, including paying for it.
It's a priority topic, for Suffolk is just now beginning to feel the forces of growth. This is the time for residents to say they won't settle for becoming another cookie-cutter city.
When the city holds ``visioning'' conferences as forerunners of a new Comprehensive Land Use Plan, residents should turn out in force. The conferences can give Whaleyville and other rural regions as strong a voice as quickly urbanizing Northern Suffolk.
The encouraging part of this process is that the city is asking, not telling, what shape the plan should take. The conferences haven't been scheduled yet. But when they are, act as if the city's future depended on your involvement. It does.
Join to make it clear that citizens want a stronger voice in how their government is run. by CNB