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Committee moves to close 'double‑dip' loophole: conservation easement land won’t count toward extra cluster subdivision density
Summary
Stakeholders urged and the committee directed staff to prepare code language preventing land protected by conservation easement from being used to increase development density on neighboring parcels; staff will draft text and determine whether changes can apply to prior proposals.
Loudoun County stakeholders and committee members raised concerns that existing local rules could be used to transfer or count development rights from land under conservation easement to increase density on neighboring parcels — a practice many called a "double‑dip" that undermines the purpose of easements.
Conservation and farmland advocates urged that easement land, particularly where development rights have been extinguished, should not be used to boost allowable density on other parcels. "If we as a community…
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