Here we are.

All right, good evening, everyone.

I would like to call to order the September 30th, 2025, Transportation and Lane Use Committee special meeting.

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If you need a headset, we have those available as well.

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For this special meeting, committee members will be allotted two minutes for questions, and we're gonna structure tonight's meeting in the following order.

Staff will provide their introductory presentation following staff's presentation.

The TLUC members will have two minutes to ask questions.

Then I will call on each stakeholder to provide their comments.

Each stakeholders will be allotted three minutes, and I thank you, all the stakeholders who are here tonight.

We will then take a dinner break, and after returning the committee and invited stakeholders, we'll then move to the tables in front of the dais for a committee of the whole.

We will go through the five issue topics that staff has detailed in the item in the following committee of the whole setup.

Staff will introduce the issue topic and then they'll probably go through a few slides just to give some background information on the issue topic.

We will hold a 20-minute committee of the whole session with a two-minute time limit per speaker.

Each person will speak only once per topic.

So that's within the 20 minutes of the time that we have.

Starting with tonight's meeting, we are making slight adjustments to our process to facilitate an efficient meeting and ensure we gather feedback from all stakeholders on every agenda topic.

At the conclusion of tonight's meeting, the staff will provide the committee with a brief summary of the meeting's highlights.

However, committee members are not expected to finalize their positions on the issues during this meeting.

After this input session, the staff will return to a future regular TLUC meeting to summarize the discussions and receive guidance from the committee, the TLUC committee, on the agenda topics before they begin to draft proposed text.

Okay, at this time, staff will present the item.

And following staff's presentation, each member will be allotted two minutes for questions.

Thank you, madam chair.

Welcome to the fifth stakeholders input meeting for the Western Loudon Rural Uses and Standards Project as we uh continue to review the uh zoning ordinance regulations on specific top topics uh in Western Loudoun.

Uh just to look at the schedule uh tonight is the fifth meeting.

Uh going forward, we do have three additional stakeholder meetings uh left.

Uh October 22nd will be bed and breakfast.

That's a continuation of a discussion that we began on April 24th.

Uh November 5th will be food trucks, food service, and rural restaurants.

And in addition, uh of particular note, that will also be the night we will continue our discussion on farm wineries, limited breweries, and limited distilleries uh that we held in, I believe July.

Uh, and we will basically discuss the items that we did not get to at that meeting.

Uh the eighth uh meeting uh is scheduled for a date to be determined, uh most likely in early 2026.

That will be uh the meeting that we discuss miscellaneous items that we did not have a resolution on and just general general cleanup items.

Now, as uh the chair indicated, there will now be uh additional TLUC meetings where uh TLUC will be providing staff with direction.

Those uh direction meetings uh right now we are anticipating three of them.

Uh the first one to be on December 17th, uh, where we will discuss food service mountainside overlay district and signage.

Uh the second one will we will discuss the farm winery limited limited distillery and bed and breakfast uh category uh tentatively scheduled for January, and then the third uh directional meeting will uh essentially be uh scheduled following the completion of our eighth stakeholder input meeting, which was the miscellaneous and overflow meeting.

Um as we indicated previously, this meeting is is uh designed to discuss the mountainside overlay district and signage.

Uh we are looking to receive stakeholder input and discuss these issues.

Uh we want to have a robust discussion.

We want to get uh different viewpoints and uh essentially uh we want to make sure that uh we uh we cover all aspects of the of the issue so that when we uh you know go to that directional meeting, uh TLUC has the information they need to make make decisions on uh which direction they want staff to go as far as drafting uh the ordinance.

Um again, I I just want to emphasize as I do every meeting that you know some of these issues uh do uh bleed into other topics, uh you know, recognize that that we are going to impact other areas of the zoning ordinance with our discussions.

We'll make notes of that and we'll revisit visit those if it is an issue that we need uh additional direction on in the future.

With that, I'll turn it over to David and he will uh give a general overview of the zoning ordinance requirements that we will be discussing tonight.

Thank you.

Thanks, Brian.

So I'm just gonna jump right in, but the sections that we'll be focusing on today are section 504 for the mountainside overlay district, chapter 8 for the sign regulations, and chapter 12 for the corresponding definitions related to the topic areas that we'll be discussing tonight.

Um before I jump into providing an overview of section 504, I did want to define covered activities as that is a very prevalent term throughout the mountainside overlay district regulations.

So covered activities is defined as for the purposes of section 504, 505, and chapter six, covered activities include all of the following.

First, land development applications, including legislative applications, all zoning amendments, special exceptions, minor special exceptions, commission permits, certificate certificates of appropriateness, variances, and zoning modifications reviewed for approval by the planning commission, board of supervisors, BZA, or historic district review committee, administrative applications, including all subdivision applications, and that also includes preliminary subdivision plats, site plans, grading permits, construction plans and profiles, zoning permits, and building permits that involve land disturbing activities and modifications reviewed and approved by the zoning administrator.

Secondly, land disturbance or land disturbing activities, which include but are not limited to cutting, filling, clearing, excavation, grading, construction, reconstruction, and investigations, such as test wells and the location, sourcing, and construction of water supply systems under Chapter 1040 of the codified ordinances of Loudoun County.

And lastly, all the uses in chapter three, which is the uses chapter of the zoning ordinance.

So to get into section 504 for the mountainside uh development, the mountainside overlay district, excuse me, um, this provides development standards and use permissions for the development within the mountainside areas of the county and more specifically within the somewhat sensitive, sensitive, and highly sensitive areas of the MOD.

So I'll get into the more specifics of the development standards later in the presentation, but to provide a brief overview.

Uh this section includes regulations for mountainside feature protection, including the ridge feature protection area and the spring feature protection area, and provides a list of limited number of covered activities that are permitted within these areas.

In addition, a limited number of covered activities are not subject to feature protection areas and are allowed within the MOD, including bona fide agriculture, public roads, and public water and sewer.

This section also outlines limitations for tree covered clearing and land disturbing activities within the MOD based on the sensitivity level and slopes of the mountainside and outlines development standards and requirements for covered activities in all MOD areas and provides more specific requirements for covered activities in the highly sensitive MOD areas and for non-residential covered activities.

I do want to clarify that during ZOR, the board did decide not to allow flexible regulations for chapter five for overlay districts and chapter six for the natural environmental resources.