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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
John T. "nr Hazel a NIMBY?
The brash developer who put Tysons Corner on the map?
The young Harvard Law School graduate who helped condemn land for what would become the Capital Beltway?
Hazel and his family last week filed a lawsuit in Fauquier County Circuit Court that argues Dominion Virginia Power should give equal consideration to all land in its placement of a 500,000-volt transmission line through the northern Piedmont.
If the court concurs, a potential Dominion transmission line could shift from Hazel property and land on somebody else’s.
“It’s the ultimate not-in-mybackyard (NIMBY) argument,” Fauquier Board of Supervisors chairman Harry Atherton (Marshall District) said of the suit.
Dominion plans to build a 500,000-volt transmission line that would link substations near Winchester and Areola in Loudoun. The proposed 40-mile line would pass through Frederick, Warren, northern Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties.
The Hazel family filed the suit against Dominion and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF), a quasi-state agency that holds conservation easements.
In identifying potential alignments, Dominion has attempted to avoid property under VOF easements, which protect land against further development. As a result, potential transmission line paths cross land witfiput such protection, including most of the Hazel family’s approximately 4,000 acres near Broad Run. (A relatively small amount of Hazel
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