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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Bmwhinnock N«w» Contributing Writer
"H»e questions are basic,” Bob Dennis told a sympathetic crowd at the Piedmont Environmental Council’s meeting and conference Sept. 12. “What is Virginia’s growth policy? Have we chosen Tyson’s Corner?”
Mr. Dennis was using the congested Northern Virginia mall area as an example of the new Virginia city - “a place with no open space, no beauty, no way across the highway or anywhere on foot, and now, no churches.”
Tyson’s Comer used to have a church, Mr. Dennis added, but it recently closed its doors because the area — mile after mile of gas stations, convenience stores and fast food dispensaries —just wasn’t conducive to church-going.
The 200 or so PEC members, supporters and friends gathered at Janelia Farm, near Leesburg, an agricultural oasis surrounded by the grim and monotonous landscape that Mr. Dennis and his audience fear may be their future home. PEC is a 15-year-old conservation organization working for responsible growth and preservation of open space in the Piedmont counties of Fauquier, Rappahannock, Loudoun, Greene, Madison, Orange, Albemarle, Culpeper and Clarke.
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