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doubtful if health services (water and sewer) could be managed. No, the “clustering” approach has merely enabled the builder to build twice as many units as he would have been able to under a conventional planning approach.
THIS has been the classic misuse of “clustering” in many localities. Steep slopes, drainage swales, bogs, rocky outcroppings—all have been figured into an overall density credit calculation to justify building more “clustered” units than it would have been possible with a single unit, single lot approach.
Another corruption of the “clustering” concept is to propose it for a rural setting. It is our understanding that “clustering” was intended as a method of opening up space in an urban or semiurban setting, where central water and sewer systems are available. In that context, it has merit. But “clustering” houses in former pastures or cornfields has no more justification than any type of development in an inappropriate location.
Let’s hope Loudoun Planning Commissioner Ernest DeCorte is successful in injecting a little more common sense into his county’s application of “clustered” development. □
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