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Griggs: Wants Growth Curbed

About 3 pages (955 words)

The Washington Post, November 1st, 1998

Not long after settling into the Old Bridge Estates subdivision with her husband and two young children four years ago, Ruth T. Griggs started hearing complaints from her neighbors. The schools are too crowded, they said. Traffic is a nightmare. My home's value is plummeting. My taxes are too high. So Griggs got on the phone with her then-supervisor, Michele B. McQuigg, demanding to know why there was so much new development when Prince William couldn't keep up with what it already had. "I explained that there were a very limited amount of things that we could do, that our hands were pretty mu...

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