Anti-developer, preservationist candidates running in Loudoun?

[Anonymous]

We need to preserve open space, reduce traffic, keep quiet and farmland.

[Anonymous]

Is this one of the billionaires that shut down the ferry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this one of the billionaires that shut down the ferry?

A billionaire would be salivating at the idea of cashing in on such a huge undeveloped tract of land…get a few YIMBY suckers to push it forward as the face of the movement, and $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this one of the billionaires that shut down the ferry?

A billionaire would be salivating at the idea of cashing in on such a huge undeveloped tract of land…get a few YIMBY suckers to push it forward as the face of the movement, and $$$$.

No, billionaires want privacy.

[Anonymous]

I remember Fairfax County fighting development tooth and nail.

Look at Fairfax now.

Look at McNair Farms development outside of Reston. The farmer refused to leave, so they jacked up his taxes so high he couldn't pay them. That's how they got him to leave.

All the talk about population going down. It's not going down. We have all kinds of population pressures in this area, and it's only getting worse. Housing prices out of sight, you can't see a physician for months because they're all busy, you can't get into colleges because of intense competition.

It's out of control. One generation of idiots is making $$$ off population pressures, but it's changing the face of our world permanently.

[Anonymous]

I feel like Loudoun is in the same predicament as where I grew up, Chester County PA. Very high-growth YOY and putting up McMansions on farms with little regard for the environment. Bucks County too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to preserve open space, reduce traffic, keep quiet and farmland.

Why do we need to do these things? People need places to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like Loudoun is in the same predicament as where I grew up, Chester County PA. Very high-growth YOY and putting up McMansions on farms with little regard for the environment. Bucks County too.

A few generations ago, you could say the same about development in Bethesda, before that, Glen Echo, prior to trollies Dupont. Cities expand over time, it's just what happens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to preserve open space, reduce traffic, keep quiet and farmland.

Why do we need to do these things? People need places to live.

They can go live where they can afford. Nobody is going to be homeless because they couldn’t live in a 5000 sqft McMansion in rural Loudoun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to preserve open space, reduce traffic, keep quiet and farmland.

Why do we need to do these things? People need places to live.

Yeah who cares about open space, trees, traffic or pollution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to preserve open space, reduce traffic, keep quiet and farmland.

You need to be looking at the western Loudoun candidates. For Board of Supervisors, that would be primarily the Catoctin District, with the redistricting done last year the new Little River District does extend into southwestern Loudoun. Last I heard Catoctin didn't have a challenger to the Republican incumbent; no incumbent currently lives in the LR district but there will be a Dem primary and there's a Republican previous school board-race loser who plans to run.

In the general assembly, for the House you're looking at the 30th district for the most part, but maybe some 29th; for the Senate, it's mostly the 31st district and maybe a little of the 32nd. Today is the deadline to file to run.