In a fast-growing county, sprawl teaches hard lessons

Virginia’s Loudoun County is ‘a little test tube’ for coping with hypergrowth on the far fringes of many American cities.

The growing pains of Loudoun, the nation’s fastest-growing county in the past five years, not only has residents up in arms, but have also drawn the attention of land-use experts across the United States. That’s because exurbs – suburbs at the fringes of metropolitan areas – are growing faster than any other kind of community, according to census data.

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