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Attorney Chosen
To Write Loudoun’s
TDR Proposal
Edgar A. Prichard, a Fairfax land use lawyer for the past 38 years, will write the transferable development rights ordinance that Loudoun County plans to send to the 1986 General Assembly for its approval.
Prichard, 65, was the unanimous choice of the board of supervisors’ Policy Development Committee, which interviewed three candidates on Thursday night and made its recommendation to the full board on Tuesday afternoon.
Under the schedule the committee recommends, the draft ordinance would be done by June 1, allowing the county ample time to explain it, seek public comment and convince key members of the legislature to support it.
Loudoun needs state enabling authority to establish the program, which would allow developers to buy development potential from farmland and use it to increase the number of houses they can build in areas planned for new housing.
The legislature gave Loudoun permission this year to draft the ordinance, but wants to see the draft next session before it approves the program, which is the major recommendation of the Rural Land Management Plan the board adopted in November.
The county administration and the committee moved quickly last week to arrange the interviews after the committee’s first choice, former Piedmont Environmental Council attorney Franklin B. Reynolds Jr., told the board on March 18 that he would not submit a proposal.
Prichard, who estimated his fee at $15,000-$20,000, was the first candidate the committee interviewed, followed by local attorneys Julia T. Cannon and Peter H. Burnett (who made their proposal together) and Massachussetts lawyer and law professor Frank E. Schnidman, who spoke to the committee by conference telephone call from Raleigh, N.C.
Armory Proposed For
Site Near Leesburg
The board of supervisors will consider donating 2.5 acres to Virginia'for a National Guard armory as soon as the board decides on a site for a fire and rescue training center, Frank Raflo,
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