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Have a complaint? Here's your chance to be heard
The Board of Supervisors has one question for you: How can it improve things in eastern Loudoun?
Through a series of public input sessions starting this month, the board is launching a outreach program aimed at capturing residents' desires, concerns and wishes for improving the quality of life in Loudoun's Potomac and Sterling areas. Supervisors will use the feedback for future planning purposes.
The two areas encompass the northeast corner of the county, where suburban development first began in Loudoun. It includes such neighborhoods as Sterling Park, Cascades, Sugarland Run and CountrySide.
Fraught with congestion, aging infrastructure and high foreclosure rates, it's also an area experiencing its fair share of growing pains. This is one reason why the county is focusing this outreach effort here.
Officials, however, are quick to point out that this is not an exercise in advance of replacing neighborhoods with denser developments. It had been rumored last year that the county had this in mind for Sugarland Run in particular.
“This has nothing to do with any type of redevelopment,” said Supervisor Susan Klimek Buckley (D-Sugarland Run).
Supervisor Andrea McGimsey (D-Potomac) said this is simply a matter of eastern Loudoun being next in line for the board's attention. County officials had been spending much of their time on planning issues in western Loudoun.
Suggested topics of discussion during the input sessions include traffic, public transportation, public safety, pedestrian connections, revitalization and environmental issues, according to Michael Salinas, with the county's planning department.
“Everything is on the table,” he added.
And while the target area is the northeast corner of Loudoun, anyone may attend a meeting and give input.
“This is about listening to the citizens on how we can improve our communities,” McGimsey said. “We want to here everything, even complaints.”
For more information, including maps of the Sterling and Potomac areas, visit www.loudoun.gov/potomac-sterling .
Officials are asking those planning to attend one of the input sessions to R.S.V.P. through this Web site.
Contact the reporter at jjacks@timespapers.com
I encourage the good people of Loudoun County to stand up and inform the supervisors how overcrowding (occupancy limit violations) are impacting our community and how this is the source of a lot of the problems we're facing in terms of schools, home values, and crime. We're not convinced the supervisors know what our zoning enforcement department is really up against; nor do they understand how resource constrained the zoning department is. If you feel the same way: be heard or let your community turn into another Manassas Park.
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