The Planning Commission/Zoning Ordinance Committee's Western Loudoun Ad Hoc Committee met on September 16, 2026, to discuss and vote on a series of zoning ordinance amendments related to Western Loudoun rural uses and standards, including lodging uses (bed and breakfasts, country inns), guest farm or ranch, farm worker housing (seasonal labor dormitories, tenant dwellings, movable tenant dwellings), and seasonal agricultural worker camps. The committee reviewed staff-proposed language, debated whether it reflected board direction, and passed numerous motions with recommendations for the Planning Commission.
Are we all present? Everybody ready? Okay, guys, you're gonna call us to order at 5 06. So we're too late getting started tonight. Um tonight's meeting will occur in the following order. Uh the committee will adopt the um meeting summary from the August 24th meeting, which I hope everybody had a chance to review. Um committee members can provide disclosures. Um I will propose the rehearing of a motion. We'll talk about that. Staff will provide their introductory presentation beginning with comments from the county attorney's office. Then the committee members will have two minutes each to ask staff questions. Um following questions, we'll go through the six topics we have for tonight. Um staff is detailed in the item. Um staff's gonna introduce the topic and we'll hold a 20-minute committee of the whole with two-minute timer for each committee member at the end of the 20 minutes. I'll call for a motion. Um, the committee will debate the motion, then vote on the motion before moving on to the next topic. And we'll proceed in the same manner. Uh ready to get started. All right. Um do I have a motion on the meeting summary from August 24th from anyone? I have um uh changes before do I have a motion first? Then we can talk about it. I don't want to adopt it because I want changes to make changes. Okay, I'll make a motion so we can amend it. Oh, okay. I said I'll make it a question. Okay, there we go. Did you have amendments? Yes. So on page two. Um the question that I had asked was a question in regarding of the um regulations that the county can regulate when it comes to um the right to farm act, and you're using a raw private farms and the right they have, and Betsy came forward and addressed that when it's a private farm with agriculture use, those buildings are exempt from the code. That wasn't reflected at all in the minutes, and in fact, what was a turned around to say that it was a discussion about legal format, and that we did um so I would like to have that added in the to the minutes. Um that's actually on page three. I'm sorry I skipped ahead. It wasn't a question about legality, and that was outside of our scope. It was a question about the regulations and are we allowed to regulate it. Um on page two. Um Judy had brought forward that we that the staff couldn't do um what I had suggested about doing the separation of the packets. So we basically just that kind of laid on the table. Um and so I wanted to make sure that was just simply clear because there wasn't really a debate about anything of it. We just agreed that the staff couldn't do it because of constraints, and that was fine on page four, and this is where I think it's very important. Obviously, um we need to make sure that the chair is recognizing and acknowledging out loud who the who the person that made the motion is and who the person is seconded, because obviously who's ever recording is not picking up the seconds. Um, and so it's important to make sure that we're doing that because on page four under motion number three saw mills. Um it says that the second identified, you know, wasn't they couldn't identify it here so on the recording. So we need to make sure for the records that we're doing that. Um then you want me to do the next one or you want to do you can do it. Then on page five again. Um I don't think that um Mr. Malone was arguing. Um I think he was discussing or debating.