Opinion
I was pleased to read your article in the Blue Ridge Leader, in the sense that I’m glad there is at least some conversation about what is happening in Western Loudoun due to the abuse of the Cluster concept. We live adjacent to the proposed “Westview at Short Hill” development by Carrington and have sent…
Dear Editor: Laura Longley’s “Is Western Loudoun already gone?” certainly brings to mind Joni Mitchell’s lyric “they paved paradise … you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” We live on a 36-acre farm just down the hill from the 47-acre property mentioned in the article, soon to be turned into a Cluster subdivision…
By Charles Houston Byne Rood was in the sunroom when her husband returned from his office. She had a wan smile and was still in barn clothes. “What’s up, Byne?” queried Robert. “You don’t look happy.” “I’m just puzzled. Maybe a bit irritated.” “’bout what?” “You know how much I’m trying to follow the new…
By Charles Houston I drove the new car down the entrance ramp onto the Greenway. A lot of horsepower was at the command of my right foot. I couldn’t resist and the speedometer surged upward. Sixty. Seventy. Eighty. Why not ninety? And a bit more. Blue lights in the mirror. Oops. Maybe ninety-three was not…
Dear Editor: During February, Black History Month is celebrated to recognize the hardships of African Americans, and their achievements. In the past, and even now African Americans were heavily discriminated against, survived the cruelty of slavery, and later on would be segregated against because of their race. Water fountains, bathrooms, and schools would be labeled…
By The Board of Directors of Save Rural Loudoun Angry interventions at the County Board of Supervisors meeting on Feb. 1 demonstrate why the County must act soon to reduce projected residential growth in Loudoun’s rural areas. In that meeting, a dozen or so residents of the recently built rural subdivisions surrounding Lucketts bitterly protested…
Dear Editor: After reading about the proposed application for annexation of a property on the north end of Purcellville, the former Warner Brook property – currently named Purcellville Road, LLC – I was again reminded of, and unnerved by, the basic tenet of these proposals: the idea that developers can solve the very problems that…
We are opposed to the Loudoun County Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure’s SPEX-2021-0025 application to provide lighting for Scott Jenkins Memorial Park. We strongly disagree with the applicant’s statement that “The development of the site will not negatively impact the area in any unusual or significant way above or beyond what is normal for…
By Charles Houston We know many political -isms: conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism, progressivism, populism. To me, the paramount-ism is populism, as immortalized in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Government of the people, by the people, for the people … That dictum surely applies to local issues, especially regarding how land is used. Loudoun’s people should control how our…
Dear Editor: After reading the BRL’s latest article exposing the mess at the Gable Farm dump site outside Hamilton, I determined to write a letter congratulating the paper for its determined pursuit of this scandal. I was reminded of my promise by the latest issue with its story on the hot mic catching a developer and town…