News Stories Tagged "Loudoun Planning Commission"

Loudoun News Briefs

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009

News briefs from around Loudoun County. Read story »

County Road Plan Hitting Some Bumps

Some Supervisors Say It's Taking Too Long

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and its Planning Commission are feuding over changes in the county’s transportation plan, an exhaustive blueprint for building and maintaining roads and highways over the next two decades, according to county officials and e-mail correspondence. Read story and 1 comment »

County's Route 28 Planning Criticized

Study Examines Views Of Property Owners

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Route 28 corridor suffers from an "image and prestige problem" because of a lack of large-scale office, entertainment, cultural and retail development, according to a Loudoun County report that focuses on the complaints of dozens of landowners and homeowners associations. Read story and 21 comments »

Loudoun News Briefs

Thursday, May 21, 2009

News briefs in Loudoun County. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Tysons Corner Farm Isn't A Good Model for Loudoun

Thursday, May 14, 2009

In a letter to the editor in the May 10 Loudoun Extra, Priscilla Godfrey omitted or misstated a few compelling details in her discussion of the Loudoun School Board's "deep, deep trouble" as it proposes to build three schools in Wheatland. Read story »

Are Zigzag Markings a Jolt From Roadway 'Hypnosis'?

Loudoun Wants Drivers to Slow Down

Sunday, May 3, 2009

One thought striking confused drivers as they approach some of Loudoun County's busiest intersections: Were they drunk when they painted these lines? Read story and 48 comments »

Downturn Puts Strain On School Boundaries

Redistricting Has Fewer Alternatives

Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neighborhood schools. Read story and 5 comments »

Planners Vote Yes On New Hospital

Supervisors Have Final Say

Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008

The Loudoun County Planning Commission has narrowly recommended approval of HCA Virginia's plan to build a 164-bed hospital in Broadlands. The final decision rests with the Board of Supervisors. Read story and 7 comments »

Hearing on Hospital Attracts Hundreds

County Officials to Continue Talks

Friday, Nov. 21, 2008

Hundreds of Loudoun County residents attended a public hearing last night to express their views on whether HCA Virginia should be allowed to build a 164-bed hospital in Broadlands. Read story and 3 comments »

Commission Adds Public Hearing, Listens to HCA Proposals

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008

The Loudoun Planning Commission announced last night that because of missing information in a newspaper advertisement, it will be holding a joint public hearing Nov. 20 with the Board of Supervisors on the proposed 164-bed hospital in Broadlands. Read story and 5 comments »

On Planning Commission, Tide Shifts to Slow Growth

Makeup Signals Board’s Agenda

Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007

Like the Loudoun Board of Supervisors that appointed it, the Planning Commission that takes office in January will be dominated by people who believe in slowing the pace of development. Read story »

For Rural Residents, Worry Over School Plan

Farmers, Parents Oppose Building Near Purcellville

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Throughout the 1990s, while development rattled rural western Loudoun County, Ellen Polishuk surrounded herself with endive, Swiss chard, beets and radishes on a dead-end street five miles north of Purcellville. Read story »

Officials Scrap Plan For Route 9 Bypass

Traffic in Hillsboro Remains an Issue

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Loudoun County officials have ruled out building a Route 9 bypass around the town of Hillsboro, despite bumper-to-bumper traffic through town at rush hour and predictions that the roadway could see crippling congestion all day by 2030. Read story »

Rezoning Requests Processed Too Quickly, Some Say

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007

Several Loudoun County officials are calling for a review of the way rezoning applications are processed, after an argument erupted last week over whether supervisors and Planning Commission members have enough time to study the requests before they come to a vote. Read story »

Official Backed Plans Of Business Connections

Former Planning Chief Had Ties to Companies

Monday, Jan. 22, 2007

In 2004, Peter J. Knop, a wealthy Loudoun landowner, asked the county to allow his family company to build a vast entertainment complex with a theater and studios on his 1,000-acre property near Dulles Airport. Read story »

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