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Sun Gazette VOLUME 39
GREAT FALLS McLEAN OAKTON TYSONS VIENNA
SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2018
Substation to Bring Needed Power Supply
Outreach Is One Focus of New Police Commander
Dominion Plan for Tysons Is Set for Planning Commission
BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
BRIAN TROMPETER
Since assuming command of McLean District Station in late April, Fairfax County police Capt. Alan Hanson has encouraged officers to focus on safety, respect the sanctity of all life, de-escalate volatile situations and understand the needs of people undergoing mental or drug-induced crises. “Our goal is that everybody goes home after the event, whether it’s the victim, the officer or the suspect,” he said. Hanson now is on his third tour in McLean. He joined the department in August 1994 and was assigned to the McLean station in January 1995 after attending the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy. After being promoted to sergeant in 2000 and serving for five years at Mason District Station, he returned to McLean as a second lieutenant. Hanson worked the midnight shift for a while, then served as supervisor of a neighborhood patrol unit. County police promoted Hanson to captain in August 2017 Fairfax County Police Capt. Alan Hanson, who in late April became commander of the McLean District Station, plans to emphasize community outreach and ongoing officer
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The Tysons area and Metro’s Silver Line require plenty of electricity, and will need even more in the future, so Dominion Energy is planning a new power substation for the urban center’s west side. The Fairfax County Planning Commission on Sept. 13 is scheduled to review the proposed substation, which would be located along the future Commonwealth Street about 700 feet southwest of Route 7’s intersection with Spring Hill Road. The unmanned electrical substation would relieve the load on an existing facility in the area, provide power to the Silver Line’s Spring Hill and Greensboro stations and supply emergency backup for the regional power grid, according to a county staff report.
Substations take power from high-voltage transmission lines and reduce the voltage so it may be used by businesses, residents and other consumers. The new Tysons substation would be centered along an overhead-transmission-line route, and those lines would connect with equipment in the building. The substation would straddle the line between two rezoning applications – CARS East and Sunburst – approved last September by the Board of Supervisors. These developments, covering about 16.7 acres, will create nine urban blocks filled with a mix of office, retail, hotel and residential space. Dominion would build the power station in advance of those two developments and, after the Sunburst site is redeContinued on Page 14
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