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are Developers Proposing in your Backyard? It's important for us to track new rezoning proposals at a local level to ensure they make sense for our community and don't add to our existing problems. If you're interested in getting more information on the issues below, send us an email with your name, phone number, and where you live. Rural
Zoning: Next Steps on Rural Zoning Proposal Rural
Zoning: Next Steps
The Board of Supervisors will also hold three work sessions regarding the specific zoning language to implement the new rural zoning proposal. The work sessions will be held on June 20, 26 and 28 at at 6:30 PM at the County Government Center. While the public is welcome to attend, there will be no public comment. Based upon this schedule, it appears that the new rural zoning could be implemented in July. Thank you to the hundreds of citizens who came out to the public hearings last week! What a great turnout. Check out our photos from the press conference and Wednesday's hearing. Leesburg:
1,475 new houses by Leesburg Airport? Holding a public hearing on a growth plan amendment and a related zoning proposal on the same night is highly unusual for Loudoun County. The current plan calls for office development at that site for the Leesburg Community. The proposal would change this land from office space to almost 1,500 houses with regional retail, likely big box stores, and some office space. Building houses on this land hurts the future economic vitality of the Airport. More information:
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2 (Word docs) Ashburn:
1,800 New Houses on Route 7? The county is considering a developer proposal for One Loudoun/World Trade Center at the intersection of Route 7 and Loudoun County Parkway. While this land is currently set aside for commericial/office space, the developer is planning: 1,800 houses not currently zoned, 14,000 jobs (what are they basing this promise on?), 3 million square feet of office space, and 600,000 square feet of retail on 360 acres. Remember not so long ago, our community was promised over 30,000 jobs at WorldCom. Business uses for this land could be implemented today under the current zoning, without the need for a public hearing process -- and without 1,800 new houses. Get
more involved in Ashburn Dulles:
Multiple Rezonings Proposed Some Dulles residents have been asking the Board of Supervisors why we would add more houses to what is already a 5 to 7 year inventory* of houses approved, but not yet built. They are concerned about their property values, the county schools and facilities they are still waiting for, and the ability of local roads to handle the huge increase in traffic. *The inventory is based on the pace of building permits issued over the past two years. The pace could be affected by a softening housing market. Dulles
South CPAM: Route 50 to be State's First Test Case Read the state's letters to Chairman York and County Administrators (both are PDF files). Route
50/Arcola CPAM:
Planning Commission Approved Remaining issues include whether any addition of housing potential is wise, with over 11,000 zoned but unbuilt houses in the Dulles Community pipeline. Enough retail is already zoned for the area and is awaiting customers who will live in those 11,000 houses in the pipeline. Loudoun County commissioned a retail study for the Route 50 corridor, which indicates enough retail is zoned to serve zoned houses through 2030. No date has been set for the public hearing before the Board of Supervisors. More information from the county Thank you
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