Loudoun County will host an information session for local homeowners’ associations on the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 18 in the board room of the Loudoun County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, SE, Leesburg.
County officials have asked homeowners’ associations to send one representative to the meeting. The organizations are also being asked to submit their top two questions or concerns regarding the draft ordinance to county staff by Sept. 10. The questions or concerns may be sent by e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by calling the Chesapeake Bay Hotline at 703-777-0655.
Members of the Board of Supervisors have held district meetings concerning the proposed Chesapeake Bay ordinance through the summer. The Sept. 18 meeting will follow the same format as those sessions.
County staff will make a presentation and provide an overview of the proposed amendments and how they could affect HOAs and individual property owners. Following the presentation, the staff members will answer questions.
The meeting will be broadcast on Comcast Government channel 23, Verizon FIOS channel 40, Open Band channel 40, and will be available for viewing through the Loudoun County webcast system at loudoun.gov/webcast. The webcast also will be archived for later viewing.
The draft Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act amendments are now under consideration by the Board of Supervisors and are to be discussed at the board’s Sept. 21 business meeting. More information is available at http://www.loudoun.gov/chesapeakebay.
WARNING: the slide shows are filled with misleading “facts” and errors.
But what the heck, who cares about truth? facts? precision in science? accuracy? sounds good, it must be good!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html
I just laugh at this one, because there is no final mapping and the residents are going to have to pay for it to figure out if they are affected. ha ha
I don’t care what some on the BOS say that they have county staff already to handle this with adding more. What I say is then, you have too many staff and in these tough tax times you should be cutting staff if they have that much free time. I agree there will be a new BOS and this bay act is like putting a self imposed TAX on people that are affected. The biggest polluter are chemicals used in farming and landscaping. That is what should be addressed. But noooo that is not their problem and they pass the buck that the chemicals are a federal problem.
read this what happened in Fairfax
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/07/12/story3.html
You’re right, Ms. M. The whole point of this, I suspect, is to try to repair damage done to their reputation among a group of voters. The real point here, is that this is too massive an effort, with way too may questions, and no one will know the real impact until it is too late, if this thing passes. This Board of Supervisors should stop now, and figure it was too big an apple to bit into.
This doesn’t make up for excluding these bodies and other existing property owners from the planning process for this mess.
Having a powerpoint followed by Q&A, then thanks so much allrighty then, is not commensurate with reopening the stakeholder process.
Pretty funny after all the campaigning on slowing things down and listening to “the people”.
Guess what, there’s an election for the Board of Supervisors, next year. And I suspect, that many Board of Supervisors members (Kelly Burk, Stevens Miller, Scott York, and just a few others) who have spent the past three years breaking almost every campaign promise they made, try to make up for it to their supporters, with this effort. The problem is, on taxes, and other issues, this current Board has left themselves so far behind, I don’t see many coming back after next year’s elections.
Why are we even considering this in our county? We’re not required to by law, and it is my understanding that this significantly encroaches upon property owners’ rights.
It seems like any time the county considers doing something new, it has to find a way to hurt its residents. Perhaps it’s time for Catoctin County to emerge.
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