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Loudoun forwards electrical-infrastructure CPAM amid debate over undergrounding, preferred corridors
Summary
The board forwarded the electrical infrastructure comprehensive plan amendment (CPAM 2024-5) for further work after staff said the policy/map changes would help the county influence transmission routing; speakers and neighbors urged stronger undergrounding language and raised property-value and environmental concerns.
Loudoun County supervisors voted Jan. 14 to forward the Electrical Infrastructure Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPAM 2024-5) to the board's February business meeting after a lengthy briefing and public comment period that included sharp disagreements over whether the county should identify preferred corridors and how strongly it should push for undergrounding of high-voltage transmission lines.
Pat Giulio and staff from the Department of Planning and Zoning introduced the CPAM as a two-phase effort: Phase 1 would amend the 2019 General Plan text and include a map identifying existing and approved high-voltage transmission corridors as a feature of the plan; Phase 2 will scope longer-term routing work and susceptibility mapping. Staff and the consultant stressed that the…
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