Susan Khalil is running for Purcellville Town Council  

Susan Khalil was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Bucks County, Pa. She is the descendant of Italian immigrants who taught her a strong sense of family and hard work at a very early age. “I was taught to stand up for my values and never be compromised. Personal integrity was paramount. There are a lot of things one can lose in life and recover from, but integrity is not one of them,” said Khalil.  

Khalil has had a career in mortgage banking asset management, overseeing multi-million-dollar portfolios of commercial, industrial, and multi-family real estate. She currently holds a position in finance for a national non-profit.

She has lived in Virginia since 1986 and moved to Purcellville in 2000. “I chose the Town of Purcellville because I wanted to raise my children in a small town with a wonderful and caring community,” said Khalil.

Khalil said her two grown children always look forward to coming back to the Town of Purcellville to visit. “It is a place where they can relax and they always eagerly anticipate showing off their hometown to their friends. They so appreciate what growing up in this town has meant to them. They feel very fortunate to have had this privilege.”

Khalil said she is running for Town Council “because Purcellville is special and I want to keep it that way. It is necessary to keep the environment of this town a low key, welcoming and a relaxing place to come home to, whether it be after a work day or just for a visit.”

Said Khalil, “We will lose our hometown atmosphere if we allow our town to be infiltrated with aggressive housing and commercial and industrial growth through annexations.  Nonsensical annexations will ruin what we have.” 

Her vision is to always be moving towards bringing Purcellville into tomorrow, “but doing so without compromising our town’s charm and traditions, and most importantly, without creating any further financial burden for our town residents. The potential financial effect on our residents will always be my first consideration when evaluating existing and new projects.” 

Khalil said she will always put citizens first, not developers. Purcellville has a quieter, slower and more intimate lifestyle. “We do not want to be Leesburg or Ashburn. I am not for extending our boarders through annexations which will change the character of our town with more traffic, higher taxes and higher utility bills,” said Khalil. 

She is running on a slow growth platform and says “the way to preserve our special town is through our zoning ordinance. That is currently where the big fight is now with the majority of the town council delaying the completion of our zoning ordinance rewrite until they change the make-up of the current slow growth planning commission at the end of August.”

The Town of Purcellville’s elections this year are Nov. 5, and early voting starts Sept. 20.