Lovettsville-area residents whose properties are already impacted by tall transmission lines are looking to avoid further impacts after county supervisors earlier this year adopted a plan that could target their properties for more electric infrastructure.
Last month, 20 community members filed petition to overturn the recent adoption comprehensive plan amendments that identify the county’s preferred locations for new transmission lines. Ultimately, where new high voltage lines are built is determined by the State Corporation Commission, but as community opposition to greenfield corridors has grown, county leaders have worked to mitigate their impacts by choosing already existing rights-of-way as preferred locations for new lines.
But homeowners along already existing lines could experience the opposite of that intent if existing rights-of-way need to be expanded to accommodate new lines, further encroaching on their private properties…