UPSCALE LIVING IN HAYMARKET & GAINESVILLE
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EXIT HERITAGE REALTY Bryan Garcia, Principal Broker
EXIT Heritage Realty Haymarket, VA www.EXITheritage.com 703-753-9100
Real Estate & Community News from EXIT Heritage Realty and Bryan Garcia, Principal Broker
Summer 2017
Dominion Virginia Power Line Project
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f you haven't been following the news on the proposed Dominion power lines through Gainesville and Haymarket closely, here are the recent developments. The project proposes the installation of 100-foothigh towers carrying 230,000-volt power lines from a Gainesville substation to a new substation just outside the Town of Haymarket. It would support a larger data center complex on the VAData (a subsidiary of Amazon) site, where one large data center is already operating. The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) just announced on July 14th that it will reconsider its Carver Road route decision, which would have allowed power lines to cut behind Buckland Mills Elementary and through historic land that has been owned for more than a century by descendants of a freed slave (shown as Affected Neighborhood in graphic courtesy of Washington Post). According to a Washington Post article (7/2/2017), the two warehouse-sized data center buildings that VAData plans to build in Haymarket are part of a wave of data center construction that, industry supporters say, will help strengthen the local economy. Dominion has claimed that the power lines
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are also necessary to serve the area’s growing population, which has been controversial. Three routes were considered during this process: a route along the freight railroad tracks behind Somerset and Greenhill
Crossings, a route along I-66 (either above ground or a hybrid route buried in some places), or the Carver Road option. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors and organized coalition groups favored the I-66 buried route, which would have the least impact on residents. The SCC, which regulates utilities, rejected the I-66 options, saying the hybrid route was too expensive and the above ground option would affect too many homes. The SCC, which then favored the railroad route over the Carver Road option, ordered Dominion to request Prince William County’s
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