The Planning Commission has identified a group of stakeholders to invite to a May 23 meeting on the Dulles south comprehensive plan amendments.
The inclusion of the Piedmont Environmental Council, which has helped rally citizen opposition to the plan amendments, caused concern for Planning Commission Chairman Larry Beerman.
"It adds a political element to the stakeholders meeting and I don't think we need that," he said.
Commissioner Christeen Tolle (At Large) defended inviting the PEC.
"I'd rather be inclusive than be criticized later for leaving things out," she said.
The commissioners compromised by agreeing to also invite PEC's ideological opposite, Citizens for Property Rights. The group is headed by Jack Shockey, who is also one of the plan amendment applicants.
Letters to each stakeholder inviting them to the meeting, which will be held at Mercer Middle School, at 7 p.m., on May 23, will be sent out by the end of this week.
The Planning Commission held the first public meetings on the Dulles south plan amendments in recent weeks with dozens of citizens turning out to voice support and concern about the projects. The developer-initiated amendments proposed policy changes that could allow for 20,000 homes in the Transition Policy Area, the area located between the suburban east and the rural west.
Earlier this year, the Board of Supervisors directed the Planning Commission to combine the six Dulles south developer-initiated amendments into one, dubbed CPAM 2005-0003, comprehensive plan amendment for the Upper Broad Run and Upper Foley Transition Policy Subareas.
The 6,300 acres owned by developers make up 74 percent of the land in the two Transition Policy Area subareas. There are six subareas.
At the stakeholders meeting, representatives from the original six amendments will make a half-hour presentation on their combined proposals, followed by three-minute statements from the stakeholders. A question-and-answer period with the Planning Commission will follow.
The Planning Commission will also hold additional meetings with property owners and possibly homeowners associations in the future.
Stakeholders
The following organizations and individuals will be invited to speak for three minutes each at the first stakeholders meeting on the Dulles south comprehensive plan amendments.
Greenvest LC
Toll Brothers Inc.
Lee Jackson Shockey
Joann Bensen
Stone Ridge Community Development
Randolph Rouse
Winchester Homes Inc.
Town of Middleburg
Loudoun County Sanitation Authority
Virginia Department of Transportation
Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority
Loudoun County School Board
Mt. Zion Church Preservation Association
Fairfax County
Prince William County
Stone Ridge Association
The South Riding Proprietary
Lenah Run Community Homeowners Association
Route 50 Task Force
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Piedmont Environmental Council
Northern Virginia Regional Commission
Dominion Virginia Power
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative
John Singleton Mosby Heritage Area Association
Loudoun Restoration and Preservation Society
Loudoun County Health Department
Supervisor Jim Clem
Kirkpatrick Farm Homeowners Association
Citizens for Property Rights