LL, on all the lots that have already been subdivided.  While it may not be for a few years,  with Valley and Woodgrove already near capacity, it won’t be “never”.

With western Loudoun now zoned 1 house per 20 acres, where are all these new kids going to come from?

Woodgrove principal last night stated enrollment for the new high school in western Loudoun is 1008 students.  That number is for 3 grades (no seniors this year).  Assuming each class is 1/3 of 1008, that would mean next year, when the school has all 4 grades, they will be operating at ~84% capacity.

LL, If you concede 5,000 people are coming, it is difficult to understand why you don’t think new schools will eventually be needed.  Yes they aren’t needed now, but the eventual need seems pretty clear unless Loudoun issues a building moratorium.

Where was I?  In another county. 
Ok, so the 5,000 people won’t be in the center of town, but going up and down small country roads.  Is that better?  or worse? 
I am well aware that county numbers are not to be trusted.  So what?  They will use them anyway, to justify building three new schools that aren’t needed.

Lovettsville Lady- With all due respect, although you may be close on the desired time lines, painting a picture that 5,000 people will be in and out of Lovettsville is without a doubt blowing things out of proportion.
First, the “projections” you give are from LCPS school staffers who have but one goal: to inflate estimates in order to get what they want. They have over and under estimated population numbers before and will do so again. For that, Loudoun has half empty schools in one area and overcrowded schools in others.
As far as all the school traffic going through Lovettsville? Well, that’s also inaccurate.
The schools will not be in town, but a mile or two outside of town… most likely south of the town. There will be no schools adjacent to the town except the one that already exists on Loudoun Street. Happy now?
Also, if there is a reason to yell “Fire!” it should be for the amount of subdividing the developers have managed to quietly get approved in and around the town over the past 10 years. If I were you, I’d save my energy for when the economy changes and the builders decide to loosen their belts. They will surely make Lovettsville look like a construction zone and there’s absolutely nothing you or anybody else will be able to do about it.
Oh, and for all those who have been screaming and crying about no schools in town… where where you when the county approved the massive amount of residential subdivisions that have yet to be built?

>>>No one is suggesting building a new high school.  The immediate goal is simply buying the land for a future school.  Seems the smartest thing the county could do now is PLAN LAND USE, i.e. decide the best place for ALL future schools, identify possible properties, obtain public input, then either purchase that land or negotiate right of first refusal while it is a buyers market. Buying land in emergency situations never benefits the taxpayer. <<<

That is SO not true.  They most definitely ARE intending to build three schools in Lovettsville within the next few years.  The elementary school will completed within two years, 2012, middle school three years laterm by 2015, and the high school completed in 7 years, 2017.  All three schools over the next 7 years, with a projected over 4,000 students and over 1,000 staff.  Five thousand people in and out of Lovettsville everyday.  The bonds have been approved.  The full report is here:  http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509905169119/lib/509905169119/HS-10 Lovettsville May 08 the end2.pdf

Thanks Ricky. I didn’t know about about those additional details, and I’m sure there are many more details out there that this paper is too afraid to publish. If anyone would like to add to this, please feel free to do so. It’s really up to the citizens of this area to bring these dirty deeds to the surface. We obviously can’t depend on our school officials or our local papers to do so.

Ready to Rumble has summarized the history well.  When Neil and Ava didn’t want to sell to LCPS, Hatk/Adam leaked their interest to Sal via Chapm, who told his former client Sal that if Sal acquired the land, Adam would buy it and pay a high enough price to more than cover all Sal’s legal fees and still turn a sweet profit.  (Attorney/client priviledge protects all the scumbags.)  That’s why Adam has worked so hard and has spent so much of Loudoun taxpayers’ money to get Wheatland.  He is in the perfect position to kill any other deals that could interfere with their scumbag plan.  And that’s The Rest of The Story.

Here’s the truth of the matter:
The timeline really begins with the contract for the Grubb property in Wheatlands about a year prior to the Cangiano contract. The Wheatland neighbors, among other folks who knew better, brought all the “cons” to the Supervisors who had only been given the “pros” by the LCPS’ staffers.
The Board of Supervisors then decided not to finance that acquisition and the school board had to terminate the contract.
As far as the Cangiano parcels are concerned, the LCPS’ staffers were sniffing around that property before he ever took possession of it. They had made contact with Ava Abramowitz, one of Wheatland’s owners, to sell them that property prior to the settlement of Cangiano’s lawsuit. (Side Note: Neil Racham did not want Wheatlands to be developed and only wanted to sell the property to a conservancy. So, Cangiano created a conservancy and put a contract on Neil and Ava’s land. Once Neil found out Cangiano was behind the conservancy, he wanted out. Cangiano sued them for breach of contract. They settled right before the judge was to give his ruling. Neil and Ava got divorced.)
As far as cost per acre? This article accidentally misleads the reader into thinking that the price per acre ended up being $47,500. Yes, that was the average, but it was not the amount that was going to be paid to the Burgess family. They were to get $147,000 per acre. Why? because the 10 acres had been subdivided into 3 lots. Two of which were family subdivided into their children’s names through gifting, then put back into the parent’s names once the 1 year holding time was up. Which, by the way, is not illegal but definitely not kosher.
All these slimy details I’ve mentioned leading up to the Cangiano contract are nothing compared to the way the Miller’s in Lovettsville were treated by the school board’s staffers when negotiating on their land.
How would you feel if someone came to you with an offer to buy your property, and if you didn’t take that offer…they would legally try to take it through the equivalent of Eminent Domain or Condemnation?
That’s how the Millers were treated, and it appears to be the reason the Millers broke off negotiations.
LCPS had a prime opportunity and purposely chose not to negotiate, in good faith, on that land because they apparently wanted Wheatlands all along.
Ok, you get the point. I’m tired of typing and I know you’re tired of reading the filth Loudoun County citizens have been faced with over the years.
One last thought though: It is not the Board of Supervisors who have ruined these deals. The fault lies with the School Board’s majority for allowing the staffers to run wild all over Loudoun offering owners like Grubb, Cangiano, and Greenvest big money for land that either is not right for schools, or simply nowhere near the exorbitant amount the LCPS is willing to dole out. In my humble opinion, the BoS is simply keeping the majority of School Board from making horrendous mistakes that would eventually end up costing the taxpayers millions in wasted funds. You may want to re-read the Loudoun Times article to determine which school board members are worth keeping and which are to be tossed. I’ll give you a hint: those who did not want to pursue Wheatlands in the article’s May 26th timeline may be the ones worth keeping ;-)

Lovettsville Lady,
No one is suggesting building a new high school.  The immediate goal is simply buying the land for a future school.  Seems the smartest thing the county could do now is PLAN LAND USE, i.e. decide the best place for ALL future schools, identify possible properties, obtain public input, then either purchase that land or negotiate right of first refusal while it is a buyers market. Buying land in emergency situations never benefits the taxpayer.

Not to worry LL, my prediction is LCPS has no intention of buying either remote property.  LCPS will happily pay thousands for those surveys and other studies all so they can later say, “Cangiano is the only place that will work for HS-10”.  Unfortunately buying a piece of Cangiano for an elementary school appears imminent, instead of considering the superior site in Hillsboro offered in a RFP response.  That site is next to the existing elementary school and fronts on two paved roads.  The good old boy system is alive and well, Hatrick gives Cangiano gets the best residential development amenity money can buy.

The surveying is being done for schools in one of two locations, Britain Road where it hits Picnic Woods road and parcels at Fry Farm and Lutheran Church Road.  Of course we don’t need those new schools, but that won’t stop the school board from overpaying for land they don’t need.
More here: http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/new-schools-in-lovettsville/
and here: http://www.class-now.org/news

I’d love to know what the latest on the school situation is.  A lot of road surveying work was done along Axline Road/Householder Road/Lutheran Church in Lovettsville over the past 30 days but I haven’t seen any stories in the papers of what solution is being investigated and by whom.