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Planning commission backs special exception for engineered septic at historic New Baltimore property

5962059 · October 16, 2025
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The commission voted to forward a Category 20 special exception approving an alternative individual sewage treatment system for a historic property on Old Alexandria Turnpike after the Virginia Department of Health had issued an intent to deny a conventional system.

The Fauquier County Planning Commission voted Oct. 16 to forward a recommendation of approval to the Board of Supervisors for a Category 20 special exception to allow an individual engineered sewage treatment system at 5277 Old Alexandria Turnpike in the village of New Baltimore.

Staff said the circa-1854 house on the just-over-2-acre property is a contributing structure in the New Baltimore historic district and that the existing drain field is failing. Virginia Department of Health issued an intent to deny a permit for a…

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