Save Orange County VA is a local grassroots advocacy group in Orange County, Virginia that organizes residents to oppose large-scale data center and other industrial developments that it says threaten the county's rural character, water resources, and quality of life. The group mobilizes public comment, provides meeting alerts and research from public records, and advocates for zoning changes, special-use permit requirements, environmental safeguards, and limits on cumulative development impacts.
Local land use and zoning reform, restrictions on by-right industrial/data-center development, environmental protection (water, wastewater, e-waste), limits on acreage and cumulative impacts, public transparency and oversight of agreements with developers, ratepayer protections for grid upgrades, and restrictions on transmission-line eminent domain
Primarily supported by small-dollar contributions from local residents, grassroots fundraising, and volunteer time and in-kind support
No formal statewide or national affiliations publicly listed; coordinates with local residents, community Facebook groups and other county-based civic organizations
Grassroots local advocacy group (community organization)
