As Loudoun continues to face immense pressure to grow and meet future housing needs, the county’s Comprehensive Plan Stakeholders team grappled with a controversial question on Monday: Keep the transition policy area (TPA) or do away with the status quo?
A majority of the group tasked with putting together the county’s new Comprehensive Plan agreed the county should do away with the current version of the area that serves as a buffer between Loudoun’s rural west and suburban east.
“One of the big takeaways we had is the status quo ... is not an option,” said Todd Pearson, a stakeholder who represents the county’s Economic Development Advisory Council and is also the Vice President of B.F Saul Company, one of the region’s largest private real estate firms. “No one in the group thought that was a good option.”
