Scott York

That’s a joke, of course. As was Chairman Scott York’s insistence that the maneuver isn’t some kind of a power grab.

Of the $197 million the county paid its employees last year, $11 million was in overtime pay, with the vast majority of that coming from the Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management, according to a Loudoun Independent review of government compensation. Since the government has no say on how teachers and other schools staff are paid, the review did not include the school system.

At a meeting in Leesburg Oct. 6, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors gave the go-ahead to a plan by Lerner Enterprises to add 453,000 square feet of offices and a 225,000-square-foot hotel to the Dulles 28 Centre at Route 7 and Waxpool Road. The mall is well known as home to a Wegmans.

A study into future development options along Loudoun’s busiest highway, Route 28, sparked a heated exchange among supervisors Oct. 6, as the study suggested more mixed-use communities with homes were needed in the corridor to entice companies to set up shop along the busy highway.

Now making its way through county government officials’ hands is a proposal to amend local zoning regulations to ban the practice of residents parking their cars on lawns in Loudoun County’s suburban areas.

The problem is most prevalent in Sterling Park, which, for the most part, does not have a homeowners’ association to monitor such activities.

Pen and pad in hand, I cornered the manager as he came out of the dugout, awaiting what I was sure would be an emotional endorsement of the kid’s arm.

"We’re going to take one game at a time. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves," the manager said in what I will only call a world-weary drone. "They never gave up."

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors got the grim figure Sept. 2 in Leesburg, moments after learning that much like the past couple years, lowering home values and the need to construct more municipal buildings continue to drain county coffers

“This is sobering news,” said Supervisor Jim Burton (I-Blue Ridge). “…The picture they presented today is worse than I had expected.”

Four years after a fire effectively destroyed the two-story colonial home in Sterling, followed by little or no action by the homeowner to either level or restore the home, the supervisors decided in June 2009 to spend up to $85,000 in taxpayer dollars to demolish the structure and place a lien on the property to recover the costs. 

Loudoun’s Board of Supervisors decided July 21 to endorse a decision by the county’s Library Board of Trustees to allow alcohol at special events held at county-owned libraries. The board also voted to schedule a public hearing for Sept. 8 on allowing the same practice at two parks and recreation facilities.

 Loudoun County Board Chairman Scott York, the county’s representative to the Dulles Corridor Advisory Committee, has invited Authority President and CEO James Bennett to give a presentation to Loudoun residents on Wednesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Loudoun County in the Board Room of the Government Center, 1 Harrison Street. S.E., Leesburg.