Letters to the editor
Dear Editor: Congratulations! Loudoun County has a new zoning ordinance – adopted by the Board of Supervisors on December 13. Everyone involved should be proud – the County Planning Staff, the Planning Commission, the Board of Supervisors and the hundreds of organizations, businesses and individual citizens that invested the time and energy to follow, understand…
Dear Dr. Spence, I have learned of your “listening” sessions you are hosting at all the schools in Loudoun County. I wish to speak up; I hope you are listening. LGBTQ issues do not belong in the public schools. This is a private matter between the child and the child’s parents. The only reason for…
Dear Editor: Loudoun’s growing data center industry needs more power than the electric power utilities can provide with current infrastructure. As a result, the regional power industry consortium, PJM, is considering a package of proposals to expand the high voltage transmission line network (link to a 27 MB file) in order to bring additional power…
Dear Editor: The boundaries of the new Little River voting district encompass some of Loudoun’s most diverse landscapes, stretching from the Blue Ridge in the rural west to Brambleton in the suburban east. Therefore, the Little River District has diverse land use policies with rural, transitional, and suburban policy areas and diverse demographics ranging from farmers…
Dear Editor It has been four years since Hillsboro initiated its transitional traffic-calming plan by replacing the town’s traffic light at the intersection of Route 9 (Charles Town Pike) and Hillsboro Road with a Round-About traffic circle. The result has been the elimination of traffic jams at that junction, especially for the 17,000 commuters that…
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