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At its business meeting on June 21, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider a Comprehensive Plan Amendment related to safety and operational improvements to Route 15 north of Leesburg. If the Board votes to approve this CPAM, the county will be positioned to move forward with designing road improvements and identifying funding…
By Valerie Cury Developer Casey Chapman has given his tenants two months’ notice to vacate their businesses on 21st Street in downtown Purcellville. To show the County that he is serious about starting the Vineyard Square project, Chapman will be cutting off utilities to the buildings before his permits were to expire for the third…
By Laura Longley At a time when Loudoun County is taking its first tentative steps to address the lack of affordable housing for the County’s workforce, Middleburg, capital of the nation’s horse and hunt country, has surprising news: The Town is considering two offers that would add 55 acres and as many as 126 new…
By Laura Longley While the Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance Committee works its way through revisions of the 2019 Comprehensive Plan, a process that will take at least until summer, an increasing number of farms in western Loudoun are disappearing fast. Four large farms around Hillsboro have been sold since June, a fifth a few months…
Is a vote for Purcellville annexations welcoming a Trojan horse? By Valerie Cury During mayor and council comments at the Feb. 22 Purcellville Town Council meeting, Mayor Kwasi Fraser responded to people’s inquiries about the proposed Kuhn annexation request by referring to it and other potential requests as a “Trojan horse,” warning the council against…
Supervisors advance Letourneau-Turner redistricting plan By Laura Longley Where do you draw the lines? That is the question Loudoun’s supervisors, mayors, and engaged citizens grapple with every 10 years when, post-U.S. census, the County undertakes the onerous task of local redistricting. Their decision impacts the lives of present and future Loudoun residents for the next…
How Woodgrove’s theater program survived the pandemic to produce SpongeBob: The Musical By Laura Longley ‘Tis the season for high school musicals—in person, without masks—at last. But it’s been a rough road getting to this point for all of Loudoun’s schools. But here we are, with student thespians ready to take the stage. At Loudoun…
With Irish soda bread, Irish corned beef, Irish stew— and Scotsman Sean Connery? By Laura Longley Remember St. Patrick’s Day? That day once a year when everyone becomes Irish—except for the last two years, when COVID changed everything. 2022 must be our lucky year. It’s looking like we might go green again. Kids, back in…
By Laura Longley Imagine if the seven Planning Commissioners who attended the Jan. 11 Planning Commission Work Session, had not insisted on answers to those questions. What if they’d just nodded their heads and, without further information, sent a highly controversial Comprehensive Plan Amendment [CPAM] forward to the Board of Supervisors for their approval. The…
By Valerie Cury A year after he first proposed to the Town Council that Purcellville annex his 118.81-acre property on Purcellville Road, owner Chuck Kuhn held a briefing with community members to review his plans for the parcel. The meeting, held at Patrick Henry College on Jan. 26, was attended by some 50 people. Formerly…