Landowner could lose rights to build on property to another developer

An Alexandria landowner who planned to build a high-end development on his 10-acre plot is now watching as a local agency considers handing his building rights to another site’s developer.

Charles Hooff has been locked in a years-long battle with the Alexandria Sanitation Authority, an independent body that for the past year has been trying to seize his property under eminent domain to expand the city’s wastewater plant.