Our own city leaders have voiced this same opinion many times in the past. Have you ever heard ANY of the city mayors, including our own, state at their State of the City Address, that they couldn’t wait for that “joint” project with so and so down the road? Never. I’ve also watched many of those Hampton Roads Planning Meetings, sent letters to them regarding the need for Regional Planning when it comes to the exponential growth of logistics centers in Hampton Roads, and even sent an application in to serve on one of their boards and have heard nothing in return. It’s only now that these other cities are more overwhelmed with development and traffic than Suffolk is and the current Governor is waving state and federal $ in front if everyone to “regionalize” for the Port if VA that Suffolk is even in the conversation. Yes, past and current Suffolk leadership has a lot to do with this. They have always taken the isolationist position. Don’t bother us, we won’t bother you. It’s who Suffolk has always been. They’ve as much requested that we lobby our State Representatives to get rid of the Dillon Rule. Regional planning could be a good thing, but first they need to balance the score and then we can talk.