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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just sounds like a free for all chaotic mess not a well planned out area such as Reston Town Center. Who are the council members involved and ok with this? It feels like a bait and switch. I’d say the majority of my neighborhood is unaware of what is on the horizon. [/quote]

Hand out flyers to all the homes in your neighborhood. Put them on the porch. [/quote]
The actual details are sufficiently unclear to actually make a flyer. Is this intentional?[/quote]

Of course it is.[/quote]

You can still make a flyer to try to get the point across why it's a bad idea to make people upset about it. Title: " Proposed Zoning Changes Will Eliminate Single Family Neighborhoods in MOCO". 
County is planning on pushing through significant zoning changes that will increase the zoned density of out neighborhood by 4x. ..... Please contact the planning commission and and our county supervisor to voice your opposition to these proposed zoning changes... List emails for people to send complaints to and provide a link with an email template for people to copy. [/quote]

My neighbors (some blindly liberal) won't care about any of this. What they will care about is changes to storm drainage, water runoff rules, lot coverage, height restrictions, historic preservation, and tree preservation. Are these all planned to be overridden by this policy, or do we not know?[/quote]

Rezoning to allow duplexes/triplexes/fourplexes will not change the regulations about stormwater runoff, historic preservation, or trees, because these things cannot be changed through changes to the zoning code. In addition, rezoning to allow duplexes/triplexes/fourplexes by itself will not change the regulations about height, setbacks, or lot coverage, although these things can be changed through changes to the zoning code.[/quote]

[b]The county literally said they are waving setback and lot coverage requirements.[/b] They also mentioned during the meeting yesterday, that zoning codes are currently silent on triplex and quadplex units. This means that they will have to write new codes for it and there is no reason to believe that MOCO can be trusted to enforce the same standards on the plex units. Also the recent state changes in law create a loophole for by-right waivers of development standards. Once single family zoning is eliminated the state laws that override local zoning authority will apply to the entire county!![/quote]

Can you point to where they said this?  The document itself says that they will be retained.  I haven't been able to find a recording of the meeting yesterday, but I'm willing to watch all of it to find this statement.  I'm skeptical.[/quote]

They will not be retained, multiple locations in the report suggest otherwise. Page 4 of the report
Development Standards: The Planning Board recommends a series of development standards for small scale attainable housing that generally follows the development standards for detached houses. The Board further recommends that:
o Substandard-sized lots that currently allow single-family detached homes [b]should not have restrictions placed on them prohibiting duplexes, triplexes, or quadplexes.[/b] This means they will waive setbacks and lot coverage requirements for undersized lots. The r200 zoning district has 72% undersized lots, so setbacks will no longer apply to most properties if they build plex units.

They are suggesting that the development standards won't apply if it prevents people from constructing a multiplex unit. [/quote]

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