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plan for saving the parts - the view of Sugarloaf, the water courses, the home place itself - was a viable and worthwhile alternative.
The devlopers didn’t need persuading. Even with conditions and restrictions, the property quickly sold.
As for Mrs. Pickens, who retains life tenancy of her beautiftil home with its antiques and works of art and the bits of whimsey that make it as comfortable as it is grand — she tries not to think about the coming development. “It would have been done immediately after my death anyway,” Loudoun’s Grand Dame of Planning and Zoning maintained. And she consoles herself that it’s an office park, which will bring jobs and revenue to the county, and not another subdivision with its tax-draining service demands.
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