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Written by Chuck Shotton
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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The latest "let's stick a finger in every pie" town council effort has council members Hammler and Wright trying to retroactively put the East Market St. toothpaste back in the tube. Decades after that portion of town has become stereotypical strip mall wasteland, these council members have decided that they want to legislate good taste and aesthetics upon our eastern front. This Leesburg Today article has specifics on their proposal to "disallow" drive-thru windows from new construction.
Aside from the obvious legal implications of trying to "spot zone" portions of the H2 corridor, it fails the common sense test. If you want to rewrite the town's zoning ordinances, then do so. Singling out specific classes of businesses to discriminate against will do nothing to advance Leesburg as a "business friendly" locale, nor will it endear you to the property owners you are about to screw out of a sale.
The right way to do this would be to revise the zoning ordinances to take effect at some predetermined time in the future. That would allow property owners with reasonable expectations to plan and execute within the existing zoning guidelines and give fair warning to any future development that it will have to follow appropriate standards. But dropping an ill-considered bombshell in the middle of an already-lost cause is not much more than political muscle flexing. Glad someone on staff had the good sense to call them off before we racked up another lawsuit for the town...
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