Tonight's public hearing in Orange County on the Wal-Mart proposal to build a SuperCenter near the Wilderness Battlefield has been cancelled.
The cancellation is due to the failure of the Orange County Review to publish the necessary advertisement required by the State Code for the public hearing to be held before the Planning Commission, according to Donna Curry, Orange County deputy clerk. Out of an abundance of caution, both public hearings will be re-advertised, she said.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors will discuss at its regular meeting Tuesday night at 7 how to proceed with new public hearings before the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors. The board meets in the basement of the R. Lindsay Gordon, III Building, 112 West Main Street, Orange, Virginia.
The Board of Supervisors regrets the inconvenience which this error has caused.
Contact Julie G. Jordan, Acting Orange County Administrator at (540) 672-3313 for more information.
The planned 138,000-square-foot Wal-Mart would be within a half-mile of the Wilderness battlefield in Locust Grove, where 29,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were injured or killed 145 years ago. Preservationists have said that is too close to hallowed ground that was recognized earlier this year as one of the most endangered Civil War battlefields in the nation.
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