Our Board of Supervisors does all they can to gather input from the community before making important decisions about development. The hearings they hold are an opportunity to make your voice heard and influence how our county grows. Just in the past couple weeks, there have been hearings about Kincora and pedestrian traffic, for example.
This runs counter to the input philosophy of the previous Board of Supervisors, who saw the input of developer cash to their campaign coffers as the more important form of public input.
Which is why it is important for neighbors to come to a hearing tomorrow night on the next stage of the Dulles Town Center.
Dear Neighbor,
Please join us for an important community meeting on the Dulles Town Center rezoning proposal on Tuesday evening at 7pm. The applicant, DTC Partners, will provide an update and answer your questions on their proposed development. County staff will also be available to answer questions. Many citizens in our district live in or near the Dulles Town Center property, and this community meeting will give you an opportunity to ask questions and provide your input.
Dulles Town Center has been designated as Loudoun’s urban center in the county’s Comprehensive Plan for many years. The proposed development would fulfill this planned vision by rezoning portions of the land surrounding the Dulles Town Center mall to create a mixed use Urban Center with multi-family residences, retail, and office buildings.
Meeting details are listed below:
* Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
* Time: 7:00 p.m.
* Location: Sterling Office, 21641 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 100, Sterling
There’s a map to the meeting below the fold.The proposed development at DTC, as noted in the announcement above, is different from developments like Kincora in that it is part of, and in line with, the Comprehensive Plan. The Dulles Town Center area is designed for high-density, mixed-use development, and is capable of managing the growth that comes with that development.
Next year the battles over development will be fought again as all of the Supervisors seats are up for re-election. It is likely that not all of the Supervisors will actually run for re-election, so we can expect that the developers and their allies who lost in 2007 will be focusing their efforts in 2010 to build campaign materials and tactics for next year. These opening skirmishes in campaign 2011 are fought at hearings like the one tomorrow night. That means we need to be there to hold the ground won three years ago, and insure that we do development well not willy-nilly.
Here’s a map to the hearing: