Longlea owner seeks

Longlea owner seeks

postponement: Positive outcome for

Culpeper Land

The owners of Longlea, an 880-acre parcel of land zoned for residential development in Culpeper County, have indicated that they will withdraw the current Conditional Use Permit application for the construction of a new wastewater treatment facility that would serve the current CCA facility, the Longlea Conference Center and the approved future residential development.

Greg Hamm of Reston Group, the advisor to the owners of Longlea and Boston Water and Sewer Company, recently submitted the withdrawal.

Hamm said the withdrawal is to allow him to continue refining a plan for the property that fits within the existing zoning, but ensures that Longlea is developed only in a way that suits the needs of the community and responds to concerns about growth.

“The owners of this land have been and remain contributing members of the community,” Hamm said. “We intend to do this in the right way, and that means working with the neighbors and Culpeper leadership to ensure an outcome the community can be proud of.”

Longlea was zoned for development 11 years ago in 1994. Hamm said that Wyoming House is sensitive to the careful approach the county is taking toward growth and as a member of the Culpeper community it intends to be a good steward of the land. “We will exercise our rights under the existing zoning,” Hamm said, “but we will do so only with the care that this land deserves. The leadership „ of Culpeper County is wise to manage its growth with care, and we will cooperate with them in that mission.”

The existing zoning for Longlea permits 1000 residential units, a golf course and the utilities necessary to serve such a development. Hamm said that Wyoming House is considering how to develop the land in a way which falls within that zoning but still takes into account the county’s present growth-management goals, as well as the unique beauty of the site itself. “I believe that there is a solution

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