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Last year, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (BOS)
voted to move forward with opting into portions of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act. Loudoun County is not a tidewater county and is not required to impose the Bay Act regulations on property owners. The proposed regulations aim to reduce pollution runoff into the Chesapeake Bay by implementing certain restrictions on agriculture and other land uses in Loudoun County.
Despite the number of concerns raised about the proposal, the LCBOS voted to move the proposal to a Planning Commission public hearing on Thursday, January 28th where it received a cold reception from the majority of those in attendance. The proposal, which requires that property owners protect perennial streams and non-tidal wetlands contiguous to other water bodies by imposing a 100-foot management buffer or setback from all bodies of water, will be debated during Planning Commission work sessions on March 3rd and 10th at the Loudoun County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, VA. A vote on the regulations is expected by the LCBOS by April 2010.
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