membership meeting scheduled for Saturday, March 14, 2020, I did not inquire again preferring to just restate what had happened to date. During this time, we were just learning about the deadly SARS-CoV-2, novel human coronavirus disease. In mid-March, we were taking things seriously, but meetings were still allowed to contain up to 50 people. We had a wonderful meeting, but had no idea what was coming down the pipeline. After hosting the third of three meetings to form new Bylaws for the MRNDA dba Whitehaven Community Development Corporation on Monday, April 6, 2020, I had planned to prepare the minutes from all three meetings for discussion at our upcoming April monthly phone meeting that Saturday, April 11th. When I powered on my desktop Tuesday morning April 7th, I discovered that Joel Weinshanker had pressed on, skipping the requirement to have a neighborhood meeting, retained Glankler Brown, PLLC (R. Hunter Humphreys and Mark T. Jobe Jr.) as lawyers, and had made application to have the area rezoned to construct a “two-story, 146,000 square foot factory in the center of our neighborhood. I was amazed at the nerve of this person who does not live in our community yet feels he can destroy the sanctity of it in a matter of months. I immediately went to work designing a petition and placing it on this very website. After all, we only had 30 days to get ourselves together to protest this proposal with a cut-off date of May 7th. That is not a long time, especially with coronavirus restrictions limiting your every move. Anyway, we made a plan that Saturday, we are sticking by it, and we encourage you to chime in to. It may be happening in my neighborhood today, but it could be your front yard tomorrow. B. 20
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