Excerpts from:Influence of Developers, Allies Runs Deep By Michael Laris and David S. FallisWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, January 21, 2007; A01 Six months after they took office in 2004, members of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors demonstrated in a single afternoon their ability to help a friend. First, they voted 6 to 3 to boost [...]
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The Comprehensive Plan Update has taken place within a policy environment in which land-use decisions are made mostly or entirely based upon fiscal considerations at the expense of achieving a healthy and balanced quality of life. As Hanover’s Comp Plan illustrates, local governments that “fiscalize” land-use planning usually abandon balanced land-use planning policies and instead, [...]
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