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Leesburg Annex to Begin

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to begin working with the Town of Leesburg to annex about 2,000 acres into the town.

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The board voted unanimously to begin preparing the necessary documents for annexation of the property, which is southeast of Leesburg and is bound roughly by Route 7, the Dulles Greenway and Sycolin Creek.

The Leesburg Town Council voted in October to begin the annexation process with the Board of Supervisors. Leesburg council member Kevin Wright has said that annexing the property will give Leesburg control over commercial development in the area. Mayor Kristen C. Umstattd, the only town official who opposed the annexation, said that increasing Leesburg’s size would ruin its small-town character.

The next step will be meetings between town and county officials and annexation stakeholders in the annexation.

The property in question includes several hundred acres owned by the Peterson Cos., which is appealing the board’s rejection of a request to rezone the land for a development of offices, stores and 1,000 residences. Town officials also opposed the rezoning.

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