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the late 1980s and early 1990s led to a population explosion and an un-built residential unit backlog of50,000 homes by 1995.
He said that his county population is expected to balloon from under 100,000 in 1990 to nearly 250,000 in 2006.
The student population too has exploded with growth rates exceeding 10 percent per year. The county now has a student population over 37,000, from fewer than 15,000 in FY 1991.
He explained that this growth has resulted in significant financial, social, cultural and environmental costs.
They include the inability of old and new residents to adjust to one another; skyrocketing debt that has pushed annual debt service payments from $10 million eight years ago to $84 million now; increased crime rates and forms of crime that are new to the county; and major and ongoing new school construction and staff hiring.
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors sought solutions to its growth problems—including building permit moratoriums, developer impact fees and an affordability index—but all were rebuffed by the General Assembly, Burton said.
The board then decided that it would "revise the Comprehensive Plan to reduce the number of future residential units and improve the quality of life through environmental and historic overlays" and then make changes to the county's Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map to implement plan revisions.
Burton said that it took 18 months to rewrite the zoning ordinance. The changes made will, among other things,
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