Planning Commission

After one of the communal wells in Raspberry Falls was closed down again on Tuesday following a spike in fecal coliform bacteria—bacteria associated with human or animal waste—Supervisor Sally Kurtz (D-Catoctin) held a meeting Wednesday with residents and officials from Loudoun Water, the Lou

A continued look into the Freedom of Information Act documents regarding the stalled Countywide Transportation Plan seems to show a relationship between lobbying against both schools and roads, at least for some.

A number of e-mail communications between the Dulles Commissioner and the Citizens for Community Schools coordinated a meeting in the spring, ostensibly a public one, that was apparently only advertised via e-mail lists and private discussion boards.

The Freedom of Information Act requests relating to the Planning Commission's lack of action on the Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP) are starting to bear fruit.

A scheduled meeting on June 25 had to be cancelled for lack of a quorum. An e-mail from Dulles Commissioner Chaloux time-stamped 5:59 a.m. on that date reads "I don't think I am going to go to the PC CTP work session tonight. No quorum tonight probably means no CTP PC public hearing in July."

The Countywide Transportation Plan Update has hit a hitch in the process, as the meeting at which the Planning Commission was to begin adopting a draft recommendation was unproductive due to the lack of a quorum.

Absent two members, the Loudoun County Planning Commission gave unanimous approval for a commission permit and a recommendation for approval of construction of Loudoun’s first two-story middle school, MS-5, in the Dulles South area of the county. LCPS seeks to build the yet unnamed facility–a 1,350 student, 180,000 square foot middle school–on 37 acres south of South Riding at the intersection of Braddock Road and Ticonderoga Road/Loudoun County Parkway. 



Recently, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors sent a message to the Planning Commission regarding a change in the size and alignment of an internal roadway in the Belfort Park area of Sterling.

The action represents a small change to a small road in a somewhat neglected area of the county–despite its prime location off Route 28; and gateway to Loudoun County. While much attention is currently centered on the plans for a minor league ballpark at the northern end of the corridor at Route 7, focus should not be diverted from the southern end of the Route 28 corridor in Sterling near Dulles Airport–the one certainty in any future planning for the area.

Some of you may or may not have been following the recent western school site drama. As you may know, after the Board of Supervisors chose, as a body, to not support a plan-compliant and staff-recommended site at Lenah. As a result, not only did MS-5 slip a third year and HS-7 slip a (first?) year, but the existing process for school site selection was dropped in favor of seeking a new one.

Planning Commission worksessions are beginning on the Countywide Transportation Plan update, on Tuesday May 26 and Tuesday June 2, both to be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Purcellville Room at the County Government Building in Leesburg. More will follow, so if there is an issue you are concerned with, attending these worksessions is a great way to stay abreast of progress.