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Aug 19 2009

Article about golf carts in Loudoun Times today

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http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/aug/19/golf-cart-proposals-face-roadblocks/

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Jun 26 2009

Dulles District Planning Update

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Dulles District Planning Update
Loudoun County June 2009
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This is the June 2009 Dulles District Planning Update. It has been a couple of very busy months on the Planning Commission.
 
MS-5
I am very pleased to announce that the Planning Commission recommended approval for the new Middle School-5 site on Braddock Road on June 18. It was so nice to have widespread community support for this school site.
 
Transportation Planning
The Planning Commission (PC) has been going through the 1,200+ comments that we have received on the draft Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP) and map from public input sessions, stakeholder meetings, email and the County’s CTP website. If you provided input to us, thank you.
 
I am currently working on a list of priority bike routes for the plan. If you have any suggestions please let me know. My initial suggestions are Loudoun County Parkway, Tall Cedars Parkway, and Gum Spring Road for our District.
 
For the past 3 or 4 weeks, the Commission has been conducting straw votes on proposed changes to the draft CTP map and plan. We agreed to remove New Road, Route 860 extended, Route 860 relocated, and Route 648 relocated from the draft CTP map. The Commission also agreed to limit the number of lanes on Braddock Road between Route 15 and Lenah Loop Road to 2 lanes, Gum Spring Road (between Braddock and Route 50) to 4 lanes, Tall Cedars Parkway to 4 lanes, and Loudoun County Pkwy to 6 lanes. We have received a number of emails from residents who are concerned about the number of highway lanes being proposed through residential neighborhoods.
 
I have requested additional information from staff on the residential unit, density, employment data, commuting pattern and growth assumptions that were used in the transportation model to justify the number of new roads being proposed in the Transition Area. My concern is that the road grid being proposed by staff here is not warranted or consistent with the low density residential that is called for in the County’s Comprehensive Plan.
 
I have requested that the County postpone the proposed July CTP  Planning Commission public hearing until such time as the Planning Commission can review the modeling data and assumptions, complete a comprehensive review of the plan, consult with surrounding jurisdictions and VDOT, and can evaluate the proposed transportation network around the future metro stations in more detail.

 

 

I want to make sure that the draft CTP that goes to the Board of Supervisors for final review is one that Dulles District residents and businesses have contributed to and support.
 
Sincerely,
Sandra Chaloux,
Dulles District Planning Commissioner

 

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Mar 26 2009

Robbery Reported In Lenah Run

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There has been a home robbery reported in the neighborhood this week.  Please be extra vigilant and secure your homes at all times.

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Jul 18 2008

Little League Fundraiser - Jiffy Lube Open House

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Tomorrow all day @ the Jiffy Lube in South Riding near the new CVS.

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Jul 08 2008

Note from Stevens Miller on Proposed Lenah Schools

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Dear Loudoun Resident,

Recently, you may have received one or two e-mails apparently from Jeff
Morse. The first of these states that I have, “proposed a measure that will
delay the building of both schools [MS-5 and HS-7] for at least a year-but
possibly as many as two or three!!!”

This statement is false. I have proposed no such measure.

The second e-mail states that, at my request, “The BoS asked to create a
study to investigate the site procurement process used to place the sites
under contract.” It goes on to say that, “Mr Miller will put a freeze on the
Lenah site while the ’study’ occurs.”

Both of these statements are false. The board has not asked for a study of
the site procurement process and, even if it had, I could not use such a
study to “freeze” anything.

Many of you have written to me, apparently prompted by these e-mails,
asking, in effect, “Why have you stopped HS-7 and MS-5?” In fact, the board
of supervisors has taken no action on the Lenah site, nor any regarding
either school, other than to include funding for them in the CIP. No
application regarding the Lenah site has reached the board.

As the meeting records show, the board did approve my request to have staff
compile a list of sites in the Dulles planning area that might host schools.
That list will be provided to the school board, and will be available for
discussion at the August meeting of the joint BOS/school board committee.
Although the first e-mail states, “Mr Miller’s strategic move occurred
without the benefit of a public hearing  on his idea,” my motion was made in
open session, on the public record, and will result in work product that
will be submitted to both the BOS and school board for whatever value it may
have.

The first e-mail, referring to me, also says, “if he successfully keeps the
high school issue (approved on the CIP) off of the bond referendum, there
will be no funding to build the high school.”

I have done nothing to change the schedule of any bond referendum and have
no plans to do so. This last statement, like the others, is simply
unsupported by the facts and it is deceptive in the extreme.

I urge Mr. Morse (if he did, indeed, write this e-mail) to speak with me
before distributing such misleading material. I also urge those of you who
received these messages to accept my assurances as to the truth.

The school board has apparently decided to offer $20,000,000 for the Lenah
site at a time when the site’s owners are claiming before the Board of
Equalization that it is worth about $4,000,000 or less. This discrepancy
cannot be ignored and I will seek to have it explained. But I have done
nothing along the lines of what the two e-mails I’ve seen say I have done,
and I wanted to tell you that myself.

Best wishes,
Stevens

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Jun 06 2008

Bomb Squad @ South Riding Giant

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They have closed the parking lot, but if you are headed to Giant - it appears closed due to an incident

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