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Purcellville
"Purcellville, Virginia, 1908-2008: A Centennial Anthology" is ready for delivery. The 125-page book, chock full of photographs and artwork of Purcellville's past and present, is $29 if ordered before Oct. 1, $34 after that. Go to the town's Web site for an order form, or contact Valarie Hooper at vjhoover@comcast.net.
Government business
Town Council, at the Sept. 9 meeting, approved changes to the utility billing structure to bring users' costs more closely into line with actual usage, and to encourage conservation of water.
Council also voted to proceed with putting the Hirst Reservoir property under a conservation easement to protect it and the town's primary water source from development.
The town will draw up an agreement with Milton Nichols that will give the town first right of refusal should the Nichols property at 330 Nursery Ave. be put up for sale. The agreement does not commit the town to buy the property; it guarantees the town a right to bid for the property should it be for sale.
Public trail
John Chapman, of Chapman Brothers, the developer of the Valley Medical Center on Hirst Road, has asked the town to accept a conservation easement on that property along the south fork of Catoctin Creek. The easement would allow public access along the creek, and would allow that stretch of walking trail to be incorporated into a townwide walking plan.
Round Hill
Serving the town
Town Council, at the Sept. 18 meeting, appointed Mike Hummel and Chris Prack to vacancies on the Town Council. Both will be sworn in and ready to take their places at the table by the Oct. 16 meeting.
A second vacancy was created earlier this month when council member Carter Morrow moved to Purcellville.
Prack has lived in Round Hill since 1998. He volunteered, he said, "to be of service to the town I have fallen in love with."
Council appointed Sarah Etro to the Planning Commission vacancy left by Hummel's move to Town Council. Etro was a town zoning administrator/planner for a year, was previously the county's community planner, and is currently assistant director in the Loudoun County Department of Family Services. She manages the county's housing and community development programs.
Gas station
Council voted to send the Pennystone/Holtzman special exception application to install a mansard roof canopy over the gas pumps at the old Amoco station back to the Land Use Committee for more work. Several citizens expressed concerns about the lighting and size of the proposed canopy.
The Land Use Committee also will be looking at proposed amendments to the landscaping and screening sections of the Zoning Ordinance, and at the landscaping section of the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.
Council set Nov. 6 for a joint public hearing on proposed rules in the Zoning Ordinance for upgrading or rehabilitating nonconforming structures.
Lovettsville
Oktoberfest this weekend
Lovettsville will celebrate its annual Oktoberfest this weekend. The festival begins Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m. with an authentic German dinner and traditional Bavarian dancing at the community center. On Sept. 27, vendors will be set up throughout town with a variety of foods and beer. There will also be live entertainment. On Sept. 28, there will be a nondenominational church service under the main tent, followed by performances by Lovettsville's youth. For details, visit www.townoflovettsville.com.
Community park
Eight Lovettsville residents, some of them town government officials and staff, spoke at the Sept. 18 Loudoun County Planning Commission public hearing regarding the Lovettsville Community Park.
All were in favor of the county's granting a special exception to build the 91.16-acre park in an agricultural zone southwest of the intersection of East Broad Way and Lovettsville Road and on the southwest side of Milltown Road. The county must approve it because 71.64 acres of the park will be outside of town limits.
The park will include multiuse trails, equestrian facilities, athletic fields, picnic areas and open space.
Because of a few details the Planning Commission wants to iron out, the application was sent to committee.
Middleburg
Fighting McMansions
Expanding the town's historic district to prevent building of McMansions – large but cheaply built cookie-cutter homes -- has been discussed by the town council for nearly a year.
At the Sept. 25 council work session, members of a town panel created to address unwanted growth will present their strategy for fighting McMansions.
Town staff said this is the first step that could lead to changing the town's zoning, which may pull all of Middleburg into the historic district.
The council plans to have public input hearings on the zoning before making any changes.
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