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| You may be on summer vacation, but the developers aren't....... Don't
let the developers flood the market and hurt the values of our houses. Prices of homes are dropping in my Ashburn neighborhood, as I'm sure you are seeing too. Given the current housing market, does it make sense to add to our existing county pipeline of 36,000 new houses, approved and not yet built? Tell the Board of Supervisors to stop adding to the thousands of new houses they've already approved. Ashburn:
1,935 New Houses on Route 7? With "For Sale" signs going up and staying up, does it make sense right now to convert any premier planned office space along Route 7 to new houses? While this land at the intersection of Route 7 and Loudoun County Parkway (see map) is currently set aside for commericial/office space, the developer is planning: 1,935 houses not currently zoned, 14,000 jobs (what are they basing this promise on?), and 3.8 million square feet of office, commercial, and retail space 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 1,935 new houses. County
Staff Report on One Loudoun Dulles
South CPAM Update However, because the Planning Commission made changes to the CPAM and did not provide a build-out analysis, we can't tell you how many new houses could be built. We suspect that this version of the CPAM could yield even MORE than the 28,000 new houses we've been hearing about for more than a year. See the county's previous analysis of the plan. Tell the Board of Supervisors it is unacceptable to consider such a massive change to our county's growth plan with no specific buildout numbers. We need to know the impact on our roads, schools, and taxes! You don't have to wait for the public hearing to speak up. Here are two ways you can make comments now:
Route
50/Arcola CPAM A build-out analysis of these proposed changes to the county's growth plan has not been done and it is unclear how much residential, retail and office space would be allowed by the CPAM. Be sure to tell the Board of Supervisors that we need a build-out analysis of the CPAM in order to evaluate it effectively. County Staff Report on the CPAM Don't
Forget: Rural Zoning Even if you spoke at the last public hearings, you need to come and say the same thing again! If you will be on vacation, please re-send your comments via email. This proposal impacts two-thirds of the county's land and would remove over 30,000 houses from an area with few jobs and little infrastructure. For more details on why the county is holding another round of public hearings, please see our last alert. We need to tell the Supervisors again:
Thank you
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Say
NO to thousands of new houses and say YES to meeting our existing
needs!
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Developers are pushing for approval of thousands of new houses this
summer. Meanwhile, we've all noticed more and more "For Sale"
signs going up in our neighborhoods and not coming down. 
1,935 New Houses on Route 7
in Ashburn?
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