Board of Supervisors Special Business — Western Loudoun Rural Uses, Monday, May 4, 2026

What was decided · How each member voted

• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: The recommendations of the Transportation and Land Use Committee that the Board of Supervisors direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 through 49, 51, 52, and 55 in the May 4, 2026, Board of Supervisors Special Business Meeting Action Item. · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Failed: The operating hours for Agrotourism/Agritourism Events, Livery Stables/Equestrian Event Facilities, Bed and Breakfast Inn, Bed and Breakfast Homestay, Country Inn, and Farm Winery, Commercial Winery, Limited Brewery, and Limited Distillery, and their accessory uses, private parties, and events (with the exception of an enclosed or partially enclosed equestrian barn) operate under the following… · 4-4-1 (Supervisors Briskman, Glass, Kershner, and Saines opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) — motion, as amended, May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: The operating hours for Agrotourism/Agritourism Events, Livery Stables/Equestrian Event Facilities, Bed and Breakfast Inn, Bed and Breakfast Homestay, Country Inn, and Farm Winery, Commercial Winery, Limited Brewery, and Limited Distillery, and their accessory uses, private parties, and events (with the exception of an enclosed or partially enclosed equestrian barn) operate under the following… · 7-1-1 (Chair Randall opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 20; to Establish for farm winery, limited brewery, and limited distillery uses the ability to hold private parties and events related to product sales that is usual and customary for these… · 5-3-1 (Supervisors Letourneau, TeKrony, and Turner opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) — motion, as amended, May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 32; Develop a consistent framework and format for use- specific standards across all Commercial Winery, Limited Brewery, Limited Distillery, and Farm Winery uses that are appropriately tailored to… · 7-1-1 (Supervisor Kershner opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) — main motion May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 3; Allow minor encroachments of no more than 600 square feet of land-disturbing activity within the Highly Sensitive areas of the Mountainside Overlay District for non-habitable residential… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 4; Add a relief mechanism to allow for non-habitable residential accessory structures to be located within the Mountainside Feature Protections by administrative approval if in accordance with set standards. · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: Direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance to revise the Spring Feature Protection setback to 100 feet outside the Mountainside Overlay District and 300 feet inside the Mountainside Overlay District and to establish a regulation requiring that the Spring Feature Protection apply to all areas within the designated setback, regardless of whether those areas fall within the Mountainside Overlay District. · 7-1-1 (Supervisor Letourneau opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) — motion, as amended, May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 8; Allow for the replacement, repair, or resurfacing of an existing driveway that has experienced washout from weather storms or other similar natural causes within all Mountainside Overlay… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 16; Revise the sourcing requirement of food and/or ingredients being served in a Rural Restaurant to require a minimum percentage of the menu items served at a Rural Restaurant to include… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: Direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance to create parking ratios for accessory private parties based on maximum private party capacity and permit field parking, provided all field parking is on the land of the owner/operator of the facility hosting the event. ( Seconded by Vice Chair Turner. The motion passed 8-0-1: Supervisor Umstattd absent.) Supervisor TeKrony moved the… · 7-1-1 (Supervisor Kershner opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 37; Revise the Agricultural Education or Research use so that it no longer is subject to the use-specific standards for Agriculture Support Uses (Standalone) under Zoning Ordinance § 4.08.04, and… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 53; Separate Outdoor or Major Recreation into two separate uses, Outdoor Recreation for less intensive recreation uses, and Major Recreation, for more intensive recreation uses, and develop scaled… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) — motion, as amended, May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 54; Reevaluate the existing parking ratios for the Outdoor or Major Recreation use and develop new ratios that reflect the intensity level of Outdoor Recreation and Major Recreation uses. · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 56; Draft language permitting Bed and Breakfast Homestays to host up to 10 annual parties above the daily limit; Bed and Breakfast Inns with one bedroom continue to host up to 20 annual parties… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 6; Expand the minimum threshold to 600 square feet of land disturbing activity prior to requiring a grading permit in unforested areas of slopes of 0 percent to 15 percent that are also located… · 7-0-1-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent; Chair Randall abstained) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 10; Explore permissions for the new construction of a residential driveway in the Highly Sensitive soil areas of Mountainside Overlay District without the need for Special Exception approval. · 7-1-1 (Supervisor TeKrony opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 22; Separate Agritourism from the Cultural Tourism use, consolidate Agritainment with Agritourism, and make the resulting Agritourism use an accessory use to Agricultural Operations with its own… · 6-1-2 (Supervisor Kershner opposed; Supervisors Turner and Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: Direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance to revise Table 5.04-5, Row #3, to require nonresidential covered activities to demonstrate that a minimum of 50 percent of the existing forested areas are retained on-site and provide that existing legally established commercial uses that do not conform to this amendment standard are not non-conforming uses. · 7-0-1-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent; Supervisor Briskman abstained) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 28; Create a process by which "Agricultural Production" uses could be verified as "Bona Fide Agricultural Production," and make such verification a necessary component of being able to qualify for… · 6-1-2 (Supervisor Kershner opposed; Supervisors Turner and Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: (Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendation) direct staff to amend the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the Transportation and Land Use Committee recommendations numbered as 29; Establish the use "Agricultural Operation" in the Zoning Ordinance with associated use-specific standards and definition consistent with Virginia Code § 3.2-300. · 6-1-2 (Supervisor Kershner opposed; Supervisors Turner and Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: Direct staff to create tiered (small, medium, and large scale) use-specific standards, similar to those in Table 4.05.10-1 for Cultural Tourism, for assembly or event uses of 200 or more attendees that are allowed in western Loudoun but currently do not have use-specific standards based on scale. · 5-2-2 (Supervisors Kershner and Saines opposed; Supervisors Briskman and Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Failed: Require a minor special exception for all nonresidential covered activities in the Somewhat Sensitive and Sensitive areas of the Mountainside Overlay District. · 3-5-1 (Supervisors Briskman, Glass, Kershner, Letourneau, and Saines opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Failed: Direct staff to explore the establishment of a minimum setback of 50 feet for outdoor private party areas accessory to Bed and Breakfast Homestay and Bed and Breakfast Inn uses. Vice Chair Turner further moved that the Board of Supervisors direct staff to explore the establishment of a minimum setback of 50 feet from the parcel boundaries of any agriculturally or residentially zoned properties… · 3-5-1 (Supervisors Briskman, Glass, Kershner, Letourneau, and Saines opposed; Supervisor Umstattd absent) — motion, as amended, May 4, 2026 Action Report
• 1a CPAM-2024-0002 & ZOAM-2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards: Passed: Direct staff to make any necessary revisions to the zoning ordinance as appropriate to ensure consistency among uses and use-specific standards as related to amendments associated with ZOAM 2024-0002, Western Loudoun Rural Uses and Standards, and to ensure no conflicts are created. Chair Randall further moved that the standards adopted under this ordinance amendment shall be interpreted and… · 8-0-1 (Supervisor Umstattd absent) May 4, 2026 Action Report

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Board: Randall (D), Kershner (R), Briskman (D), Saines (D), Umstattd (D), TeKrony (D), Letourneau (R), Turner (D), Glass (D). Member-by-member votes will be listed here from the official record.

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