Al Van Huyck’s Letter to the Editor

Al Van Huyck, the recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Loudoun County Environmental Commission, sent a letter to the letter, published in Loudoun Now, expressing concern about the Board of Supervisor’s decision to suspend the zoning enforcement lawsuit in the Mountain Overlay District (MOD).

Van Huyck’s letter expressed concern about the apparent willingness of the Loudoun County Board to introduce “flexibility” into the MOD zoning ordinance.

“What is central to me about the Board’s action is not so much the disheartening decision to postpone enforcement of existing zoning violators, but that the 9-0 sentiment was the mountainside zoning should be made more flexible to allow more individuals to construct homes, driveways, outbuildings, and septic systems on the mountains in the future.

No one raised the question why the Mountainside Regulations were written with these restrictions built in or the obvious question how many new housing units and developments will be allowed over the next 20 or more years under new flexibility.”