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skeptical of the incentive program. Their thinking, he said, is: “It is an expenditure of funds that doesn’t go to safety, that doesn’t go to education, that doesn’t go to tax reduction, and therefore it has no merit.” However, Buona said those questioning incentive funds don’t understand the purpose of the money. They wrongly think the county is somehow investing taxpayer dollars in companies that receive the incentives, he said. “You’re not making an investment in the company like Wall Street or a venture-capital firm would do,” Buona said. “You’re simply saying, ‘Come to Loudoun, not to Maryland,’ and that’s why we do this.” n
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Director John Merrithew will serve as acting head of planning and zoning until the county names someone to take over the job permanently. Before welcoming a new director, however, county staff members and elected officials spent the past month saying goodbye to Pastor. The Board of Supervisors feted Pastor Dec. 3 with an official proclamation in honor of her more than two decades of work implementing the “land use and planning concepts that have formed the basis for the fiscal and economic vitality of the community, that protect our heritage and environmental resources, that support our rural economy and that steadfastly protected the Dulles Airport.” County Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) recalled when Pastor was hired. She was the last candidate to interview for the planning director job, and he had been nonplussed with the others. But Pastor not only landed the position, she’s also been around to work with six different boards of supervisors and two county administrators. “I will always remember your focus, your attention to detail,” Tim Hemstreet, Loudoun’s current administrator, told her at that Dec. 3 supervisors’ meeting. Ben Mays, Loudoun’s chief financial officer, also pointed out in an interview a partnership he forged with Pastor and other county staff leaders. It sought to coordinate long-range land-use planning with financial planning for the government and plans to build capital facilities, such as schools. That might sound like an obvious step, but it’s one that’s not taken everywhere. And when working on this and other projects, Mays said he couldn’t have asked for a better “partner,” “mentor” or “colleague” than Pastor. He noted, too, that a certain planning director with short gray hair and a friendly smile spent the first couple of hours one day last month not poring over ordinances or rezoning applications but passing out doughnuts and chocolate to those in the county administration building. “She’s that sweet a person,” Mays said. n
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