Road builders need them to level the county's rolling hills into concrete interchanges and bypasses. Developers need them to turn farm land into housing developments and shopping malls. You can find big earth-moving equipment throughout Loudoun, turning Virginia's most picturesque county into another example of suburban sprawl while adding to one of the worst traffic problems in the nation. But traffic is just one of the problems facing Loudoun County as a result of population growth wildly out of control. Schools are crowded and public utilities are under great stress.
Property taxes are on the rise.
Yet the bulldozers keep on coming. Ripping up one of the most beautiful places in the world. And turning it into a concrete and asphalt suburb. Just like much of Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland. There's not much we can do to reclaim the thousands of acres already destroyed.