Zoning Ordinance Committee - Sep 02, 2026

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Loudoun County Board Committees and Advisory Boards 56 min 1 speaker 8 agenda items transcribed 5 days ago official recording ↗

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What is the purpose of the Zoning Ordinance Committee’s preliminary inventory and data sampling?

Unknown 0:02

They have the same issues being addressed eight years later in Wallace. It's only a minute. I thought I'd bring popcorn again to my last thing. In twenty twenty two, I supported Buddy Riser and the RDC Zor ad hoc committee to fairly vote for rural business input for zoning changes that are still being debated by a minority of public input. I could tell it was making a difference when supervisors listened to one side and tried to remove me. Um Stock and so I but failed. I've heard some misrepresentations about the preliminary inventory I prepared in February. To answer my supervisor's repeated questions over ten months. To be clear. It's not my inventory. It's a proof of concept sampling of the county's data and landmarks.

Unknown 0:52

The data sources and methods used were reviewed with staff and they've confirmed the sampling will use the same systems and methodology they will use. The sampling showed significant anomalies between permits, inspections, and actual operations that must be reviewed. Requiring permit and inspection compliance is not anti business. It's pro public health and safety. For those on the Walrus Aja. Please remember. County staff were gobs backed. By the volume of written ZOR public input, two thousand four hundred and eighty seven pages. Staff has used them to create the text in review right now. Let's watch out to be sure that public and b majority and board direction motions are not overturned. By some who may disagree.

Unknown 1:45

Best of luck to those who remain. And um I'm pleased to introduce, she s she didn't make it this morning, uh that Madeline Skinner will be taking my slide. So did everybody get some popcorn? Okay, I want one. Thank you. Appreciate it more. Her her Rolex is at the end of the Um any disclosures? Uh any comments on the actual report? I get a motion. I move to accept.

Dale Polen Myers 2:24

All in favor? Hi. Hello. Any post? I'm gonna abstain 'cause I wasn't here. I'm gonna abstain because I was absent. Okay.

Unknown 2:32

Who seconded? Uh yeah, that's okay. Okay. All right, it's the Ryan shell. All right. Uh so Taking a look at agenda item five there on the list. Um, five A's, the data center standards and locations, Zoam and CPAM of staff. We're deep in the text amendments with that right now. We have two town hall public outreach meetings coming up at the end of the month. That's September 28th and September 30th. Um And don't have locations in front of me. I think one's at Broadrun High School, but I can get that information to you guys. Um, we'll be bringing a project update to Zoc at the October meeting and then later that meeting provide an update to the board. And that's still on track. The board directive is to have that finished by June of twenty seven.

Unknown 3:25

And so we're working hard to do that. So that project will be coming to you guys for an update uh next month.

Dale Polen Myers 3:33

Two quick just two quick questions. Um The input that's for the twenty eighth and the thirtieth, is there something that people are looking at that they're giving input to or is it just literally they're saying what they think about data centers?

Unknown 3:48

Um we're right now we're forming the content and really what we want to get out of that, the input that we want to get out of it. We've got some great surveys that have been done throughout the county, um, getting a pulse on the citizens' ideas of what they want so we can inform the board. Um but that will be really looking at the different things. We're going to take it as an education. So the different areas that we've got some use-specific standards for. For example, electrical substations. I know Ben's been involved in an electrical infrastructure group. But electrical substations, uh, on-site power generation, uh, battery energy storage systems, all those things that we have, some use specific standards that we're working on right now.

Unknown 4:34

Um, but then it would be asking the public, you know, what is that? What would make this, you know, what could be done? what could be innovative to take care of the concerns you have. We we know concerns are around uh water consumption, obviously noise, uh visual, and so those are things