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By SEAN ADAMS Arundel 'Newspaper*, Richmond Bureau
A General Assembly joint subcommittee studying farmland preservation approved two bills last Thursday that would allow local governments to protect valuable agricultural land and to control better the rate and location of non-farm development.
One of the proposals, recommended by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, would allow local governments to control the rate and location of nonfarm uses as set forth in a comprehensive plan and capital improvements program. But such plans would have to “contain reasonable provisions” for public facility improvements in areas designated for development in those plans.
“We realize that this has pretty big ramifications,” said Del. Ford C. Quillen (DScott), chairman of the subcommittee. “But we think everybody else realizes that there is a need” for the enabling legislation, which would apply only to localities that want to use it.
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