A Sustainable Community

One Loudoun has been conceived as a sustainable community. Sustainability is one of the core principals of New Urbanism. In fact, the innovative community design is the only proposed project in Loudoun County to earn a "Smart Growth Project" award from the Smart Growth Alliance, a consortium of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Coalition for Smarter Growth, the Metropolitan Washington Builders’ Council and ULI Washington (a district council of the Urban Land Institute).

One Loudoun represents a collaborative effort to achieve a comprehensive environmental master plan in which every aspect of the community was examined – from architecture and sustainable community design concepts to indigenous plant species, wildlife habitats, conservation and natural resource management.

This plan serves as the basis for our environmental "vision" for One Loudoun and is the result of the adaptation of specific principals and guidelines aimed at insuring long-term sustainability. These guiding principals will be woven throughout the fabric of the community to promote environment stewardship now, and for generations to come.