As an economic and transportation gateway into Loudoun County, the Route 28 Corridor also lends itself to emerge as an international gateway for the Washington metropolitan region and a major employment destination for national and international businesses. The Route 28 Corridor Plan amended the County’s comprehensive plan, known as the Revised General Plan, and included policies intended to maximize the corridor’s commercial development potential. The Route 28 Corridor Zoning Ordinance Update is an important implementation component to the policies established in the County’s adopted Route 28 Corridor Plan. 

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Amendments to one of the County’s primary mechanisms for the implementation of comprehensive plan policies, the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance, can establish regulations and standards that match the preferred development patterns established by the Route 28 Corridor Plan; apply incentive-based solutions to achieved desired outcomes; incorporate flexibility to give property owner’s the ability to respond to the corridor’s evolving market while adhering to plan objectives; and provide greater consistency and efficiency among legislative and administrative review processes.

The Route 28 Corridor Zoning Ordinance Update is a project that involves a number of steps that are expected to cover an approximately 16-month period. These steps include:

• Zoning Discovery which is a process that includes: 1) analyzing existing County regulations for applicability with Route 28 Corridor Plan policies, 2) identifying process and regulatory impediments (such as redundancy, overlapping regulations, and requirements that are not clearly and effectively stated) with the goal of correcting these impediments through the zoning ordinance amendment process, and 3) confirming that the recommended implementation strategies are the most effective for implementing the adopted policies. From the zoning discovery process, a number of objectives will be identified and used to direct the development of specific regulatory changes.

• Draft Amendments where the objective is to produce final draft amendments to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance with significant county staff, stakeholder, and general public involvement. This step also continues the active participation of the stakeholders’ network cultivated during the plan amendment process, which included visioning workshops, forums, and one-on-one interviews.

• Public Review and Adoption where the objective is the presentation of the final draft amendments to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance through the legislative review, approval and adoption process.  Presentation of the draft amendments to the Board of Supervisors for legislative review and adoption is expected in the first quarter of 2013.

Please check back for updates. Contact Michael "Miguel" Salinas, project manager, at 703-777-0246 with questions or comments. If you are interested in receiving email updates on the zoning ordinance update, please email us at .