Loudoun's Class War Over Growth
25 August 2000 - 3:30pm
They've been called liars, socialists, traitors and thieves. But one slur really seems to have riled Loudoun County, VA's eight slow-growth supervisors: snob.
Landowners, developers and other foes of restricting home building in the region's fastest-growing county are casting Loudoun's elected leaders as enemies of the middle class, hoping to sway public opinion and government action in a county that voted overwhelmingly last year to slow growth. They have accused the supervisors of shilling for the rich by trying to preserve the open countryside that also happens to be the backdrop for some of the most exclusive estates in Virginia's vaunted Hunt Country.
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Loudoun's Class War Over Growth
Source:
The Washington Post, August 25, 2000
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