A Fairfax County supervisor, who represents a district that last year’s flood waters devastated, wants a law to force property owners to disclose potential for flooding to their tenants.
Huntington, a community in the eastern part of the county that bore the brunt of the summer’s torrential rains and flooding, saw more than 150 homes inundated by swells from nearby Cameron Run. The surge of water dealt millions in property damage.
Mount Vernon District Supervisor Gerald Hyland has pushed for the change to the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to alert renters their homes could be flood-prone.
“It would just give people a heads up who are leasing property to know if there is any threat of flooding and if there has been a history of flooding in the past, that there be a disclosure to give people knowledge of what they’re getting into,” he said Monday. “Clearly, in Huntington, where we have an awful lot of rental units, I think people should be aware that we’ve had some issues.”
The Board of Supervisors agreed Monday to further study and sent the request to the General Assembly.
