1. Does the balance of the proposed roadway required to connect the road to Route 287 traverse property that was placed in conservation easement?—Answer
2. Will the Brown family be provided access to property on one side of the road to the other?—Answer
3. How much acreage owned by Tim Brown and Sam Brown will be physically needed for the completion of the road?—Answer
4. Why is the majority of the proposed alignment on property identified as owned by the O’Toole family?—Answer
5. How long of a segment is needed to complete the road?—Answer
6. How much traffic is projected to utilize the proposed roadway?—Answer
7. Is the proposed roadway consistent with the Town’s Comprehensive Plan?—Answer
8. What steps has the Town taken to manage growth?—Answer
9. What is happening with the Route 690 Interchange Project that the voters of Loudoun County approved funding for preliminary engineering?—Answer
1. Does the balance of the proposed roadway required to connect the road to Route 287 traverse property that was placed in conservation easement?
No. In addition, the Town supported the conservation easement voluntarily placed on the property by Sam Brown (the voluntary extinguishing of development rights) in a letter to the Land Trust of Virginia. The Land Trust of Virginia holds the easement on the property. To read the easement, click here.—Back to questions
2. Will the Brown family be provided access to property on one side of the road to the other?
Under the preferred alignment 2.24 acre +/-. An earlier proposed alignment would have impacted a large portion of a 16-acre parcel of property.—Back to questions
4. Why is the majority of the proposed alignment on property identified as owned by the O’Toole family?
The O’Toole family has submitted a plan to the Town that would put the majority of the proposed road on their property.—Back to questions
5. How long of a segment is needed to complete the road?
Under the preferred alignment ¼ mile +/-. The approval of both the Hirst Farm (2001) and Village Case (2000) developments required the developers of those respective developments to construct their portions of the road. That has since occurred and those portions of the road (A Street) are utilized today.—Back to questions
6. How much traffic is projected to utilize the proposed roadway?
The studies over the past ten years indicate that from 13,700 to 15,000 vehicle trips per day would utilize the road. (The 13,700 to 15,000 vehicle trips per day is based on the 2030 recommended Transportation Plan Daily Capacity as identified in the Loudoun County Adopted Transportation Plan Volume.)—Back to questions
7. Is the proposed roadway consistent with the Town’s Comprehensive Plan?
Yes, the proposed road was adopted by the Town in its first Comprehensive Plan in 1978. It has been supported by both Town and County planning documents ever since.—Back to questions
8. What steps has the Town taken to manage growth?
The Town in August 2008 in accordance with its Comprehensive Plan comprehensively remapped the Town which resulted in more than 1,000 residential units being removed from the planning map. Removal of those units reduced future in-town vehicle trips by more than 10,000 trips daily.—Back to questions
9. What is happening with the Route 690 Interchange Project that the voters of Loudoun County approved funding for preliminary engineering?
To place a new interchange at Route 690 and Bypass 7 requires an Interchange Justification Report (IJR). Voters in Loudoun County approved funding in November 2006 in the amount of $500,000 to undertake the necessary analysis to prepare the IJR to present to both the Federal and State governments. Both the State and Federal governments must review the IJR to make a determination if they would permit an interchange in this location. The County Board of Supervisors has put all work in developing the IJR on hold. The interchange, which is not within Town borders, has an estimated cost of between $16 and $30 million.—Back to questions