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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anybody done research into how many churches own large swaths of land in Northern Virginia?  This area is already pretty built up.  While annoying for some who live near these potential buildings, I don't think it's going to ruin public schools.  [/quote]

A church near my home has about 8 acres of land next to it. They want to put up to 178 units on it, right up against single family homes. There is no direct access to a main road where they want to build the housing. Residents of the new housing would have to cut through a daycare parking lot onto a two-lane road that already gets very congested at rush hour. An access road for emergency vehicles would be built between two homes in a cul de sac.

The church and the developer they are partnered with have been working through the county process to get approval to build the housing. The process includes noise and traffic studies and some other things. From what I heard, these things were not going too well for them. If this bill doesn't get vetoed, they will apparently get to just ignore these very real issues and do a massive upzoning of the land -- from 1-2 units per acre to 178 units per acre -- all so they and a developer can make money.

This is in an HOA run neighborhood, and the church is supposedly subject to HOA approval. Our only option to stop it might be a vote by our architectural review board. But I don't know the details of that.

It's easy to be YIMBY in principle; harder when there is a project that will go right next to a bunch of SFHs that simply does not make logical sense.

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