Who Wants The Road?

Developers.

Developers own acres of land along the Western Transportation Corridor and the highway will give access to that land so they can build thousands of houses. In 2002, the development community poured millions of dollars into the campaign to pass a sales tax referendum for transportation. Among other projects, revenues from the sales tax would have funded the Western Transportation Corridor (Route 659 Relocated) and the Tri-County Parkway. A map produced by the NoSprawlTax.org campaign showed thousands of acres in the WTC corridor held by speculative landholders.

Developers then poured hundreds of thousands of dollars more into the 2003 Loudoun election. Among the new Board's first actions were to consider putting the WTC back on the county plan and to open the Transition Area surrounding the proposed WTC to public water and sewer. As of Nov 2004, the county is considering applications for changes to the County Comprehensive Plan that would allow 42,000 new houses in the county - most of which would line the WTC corridor. See the map.

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