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County to Open Doors to Unions

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Those amendments include creating a new redistricting commission and exempting disabled veterans from paying state and local taxes on their cars and trucks.

The Loudoun Board of Supervisors has voted to let unions into county buildings to talk with and recruit public employees, and could let county government employees unionize if they ask for it.

Currently, under state law, state and local governments are not allowed to recognize any union or collective bargaining.

Although some county employees are union members already with organizations like the Service Employees International Union Virginia 512, whose leaders speak on behalf of the concerns of county employees during the public input sessions in every annual budget cycle, unions cannot bargain on behalf of employees.

But with a new state law signed in April and going into effect in May 2021, localities may elect to recognize collective bargaining representatives, allowing unions to negotiate on behalf of employees.

Employees of constitutional officers, in Loudoun including the sheriff, commonwealth’s attorney, treasurer, commissioner of the revenue and clerk of the Circuit Court, are excluded.

Democrats on the county board are moving toward that possibility, starting with a party-line vote on Oct. 20 to allow labor associations and organizations with more than 100 members to hold open houses twice per year in the Shenandoah Building and County Government Center in Leesburg, and in the county govern-

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Elections officials guide voters through early voting during extended hours at the Office of Elections on Miller Drive in Leesburg on Tuesday, Oct. 27.

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With one of the most chaotic elections in American history coming to a close— hopefully—on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Loudoun’s polling places are an oasis of good organization and short wait times.

On the ballot will be the battle for

president and vice president, Republican Daniel Gade’s attempt to unseat Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Republican Aliscia Andrews’ bid to replace Rep. Jennifer T. Wexton (D-VA-10), two state constitutional amendments, and a number of countywide ballot questions on issuing bonds to fund public projects.

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Group Seeks to Block Police’s Facebook Search Warrant

BY PATRICK SZABO

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A Sept. 11 protest that left a message painted on the sidewalk in front of Attorney General Mark Herring’s downtown Leesburg home prompted the town’s police force to obtain a search warrant to find out who was responsible for the crime. Now, the activists who led the protest are petitioning the court to block that search.

On the evening of Sept. 11, the Leesburg Police Department received a report of 20 to 25 people wearing black masks gathering in front of Herring’s home. The group, later reported to be the Free Them All VA Coalition, was protesting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s transfer of migrant detainees to the Farmville Detention Center, where a COVID-19 outbreak ensued and resulted in one death.

Coalition members painted “LIBEREN A TODXS” and “FREE THEM ALL!” in large blue letters on the town-owned sidewalk.

Although members of the coalition claimed the paint could be easily removed, Loudoun County Fire-Rescue crews were unable to wash it off. Staff members from the town’s Public Works Department subsequently removed the paint.

The Leesburg Police Department has

already charged one person, Jessie Patton, 29 of Fairfax, with misdemeanor destruction of property. Fairfax City Police officers were able to serve that warrant on Sunday, Oct. 25.

To determine who else was responsible for the property damage, the Police Department on Sept. 15 requested a magistrate issue a search warrant to obtain information from Free Them All VA Coalition’s Facebook page.

Police Department Public Information Officer Michael Drogin said the magistrate signed off on the search warrant and that it has been served on Facebook, but no information has come back to the Department yet.

The search warrant’s scope included, “Any and all subscriber records including subscriber names, address, phone numbers, length of service, credit card information, email address(es), and recent login/logout IP address(es). Any and all wall content/posts, messages, chats, videos, and pictures to included deleted material.”

The Free Them All VA Coalition— which claims on its Facebook page to be an abolitionist coalition that aims to “amplify the organizing and voices of those incarcerated in Virginia detention centers, jails and prisons”—claimed that scope was too broad. On Oct. 13, the coalition, via its

legal counsel the Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a motion to quash the search warrant.

“The warrant is manifestly overbroad.

Most of the material demanded bears no relation to the investigation for which the police sought the warrant,” the motion reads.

The Public Citizen group wrote in an Oct. 14 blog post that although the search warrant was limited to the period of Sept.

10-15, posts and messages from earlier time periods remain in the private section of the Free Them All VA Facebook page and could be subject to the warrant.

Many of those messages, the litigation group claims, relate to the health and immigration status of the posters and their families. The group also claims messages exist related to the political strategies “aimed at effecting change in public policy.”

The motion details that the search would enable the government to review private communications on strategies outlining ways to disagree with elected officials and build public opposition to those officials’ policies and practices, which could lead to discrimination and retaliation against those individuals and their families. “… [Y]ou could have law enforcement officials paging through a whole bunch of confidential messages, having nothing to

do with the supposed crime of painting words on a sidewalk,” the litigation wrote in its Oct. 14 blog post. It noted in its Oct. 13 motion that the sidewalk damage cost the town less than $1,000 to remedy.

In addition to representing the Free Them All VA Coalition, the Public Citizen group also is representing three anonymous Facebook users who were not at the protest outside Herring’s house but are concerned that they could suffer personally if they are identified as being associated with the Facebook group.

The litigation group asserts that “paging through irrelevant documents” is construed as “exploratory rummaging,” according to the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.

The group also asserts that the search of the Free Them All VA Facebook page would violate its members’ rights under the First Amendment, which, the litigation group wrote in its blog post, “… bar[s] investigations that unjustifiably chill the free speech of unpopular groups.”

More generally, the information of Facebook users who merely follow and like the Free Them All VA Facebook page could be subject to the search warrant’s FACEBOOK SEARCH continues on page 37

Loudoun Fire-Rescue Trains at Panda Power

BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com

Loudoun County Combined Fire-Rescue System personnel last Thursday morning got a chance to train at a high-stakes, high-altitude spot: Leesburg’s Panda Stonewall Energy Center, a 778-megawatt natural gas power plant.

The power plant, which opened in April 2017, invited Loudoun’s technical rescue team in to practice getting an injured person down from high on one of the power plant’s buildings. Working in heavy fog, the team rigged a rope system to rescue a mannequin from a high staircase, while power plant employees and General Manager Mark Kadon looked on.

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Loudoun

Supervisors to Resurrect Land Conservation Program

BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com

Loudoun supervisors have voted to lay the groundwork to resurrect the Purchase of Development Rights program, a land conservation tool that would see them spend county dollars to permanently protect some properties from development.

In a purchase of development rights program, the county could buy the development rights from a piece of land, permanently separating those rights from that land and retiring them. In theory, that would allow landowners to realize some of the value from their land’s development potential while also permanently protecting that land from actual development.

Loudoun has had a Purchase of Development Rights program before. That has existed in Loudoun’s ordinances since 1999 but has been unfunded since 2004 when a newly elected Board of Supervisors at its first meeting reversed much of the previous board’s planning, particularly around conservation.

And on Oct. 20, after years of debate across the previous board’s term and into the current term, supervisors voted 8-1 to resurrect the program with a brand-new ordinance and $30,000 worth of marketing to get the word out.

“I think this is a very prudent step forward in order for us to begin to have direct involvement in protecting some of our land resources all over the county,” said Supervisor Michael R. Turner (D-Ashburn), who chairs the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee, which has examined PDRs and a Transferable Development Rights program over the past several months.

If supervisors decide to fund the PDR program, county staff members say they will also need to hire more people to ramp it up. How many will depend on how that ordinance shapes up, and how much supervisors are willing to invest in the program.

Supervisor Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge), who has long pushed for some type of conservation program, called it “another tool in the toolbox” to preserve areas of western Loudoun, matching the new county comprehensive plan’s stated goals to protect those rural and open spaces.

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Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin), while supporting the work to draft an ordinance and begin marketing the program, said he was skeptical of spending taxpayer money.

“I love the concept. I think it’s great. I just think we have to be good stewards of the money,” Kershner said.

He pointed out that, depending on how the ordinance is written, supervisors may even be able to decide each year how much money to put into the program.

Only Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) voted against the program.

“We’re going to be in a fiscally difficult situation, I think, beyond this next year, and ultimately for this to work as a true PDR, it’s going to take cash investment into properties,” Letourneau said.

“If we budget say in [Fiscal Year 2022 or 2023] $5 million for a PDR, and we have $10 million worth of applicants, how do we determine who gets the money? And that’s when some of the places that have had these issues and had this program, that’s when they’ve got into problems.”

Transfer Program Blocked At the same meeting, supervisors narrowly turned down—at least for now—a Transfer of Development Rights program, in which landowners in designated sending areas would be allowed to sell their

development rights to landowners in designated receiving areas, moving those development rights two other, targeted parts of the county.

As discussed in committee, that program would likely involve creating a formula to convert residential development rights sold in the west into commercial development rights purchased in the east.

While asking his colleagues to support a $60,000 market study on the program, Turner acknowledged it comes with many complications.

Those included concerns it would compete with the county’s own Affordable Dwelling Unit program and proffer negotiations, both of which rely on developers coming to the Board of Supervisors to negotiate rezonings for higher density development. Buying development rights from other landowners could sidestep that process.

With the program likely designed to convert residential development into commercial, Supervisor Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling) also pointed out that a number of business developers are expected to ask the county to rezone to residential development, as commercial property values plummet while residential property values continue to climb.

“To be honest, it’s not the right time,” Saines said. “… Even the business devel-

opers are not looking at commercial right now.”

The two votes also mark a reversal from the previous Board of Supervisors’ discussions. On the previous board, TDRs had once been the favorite of the two. In February 2019, the Republican majority of the time voted down a push by Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) to restart the purchase program, voting that same night to move the transfer program to committee for further study.

Buffington, who has long pushed for conservation programs in the west, was one of the votes against the purchase program at that time.

That board may also have inadvertently steered the county toward a purchase program later that same year, by largely excluding both programs from the comprehensive plan. County planners this year said that, under the state laws governing the programs, there is no requirement that a purchase program be mentioned in the county comprehensive plan, while a transfer program would require going through the lengthy process of amending the plan.

And during work on both ideas in the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee this year, more skepticism emerged around the transfer program and its greater complexity.

Letourneau said he remains skeptical about the programs.

“I have a lot of concerns about TDR in particular, because the reality is, we went through a pretty extensive comprehensive plan process,” Letourneau said. “And we, I think, spent a lot of time looking at areas where we could potentially increase density for development, and I don’t think we left anything on the table.”

But the transfer program could be back on the table. Supervisors voted it down 4-4-1, with Supervisors Juli Briskman (D-Algonkian), Letourneau, Saines and Sylvia R. Glass (D-Broad Run) opposed and Randall abstaining.

“I have more questions now than I did before, which is not a no, but I need to get some things answered,” Randall said.

If the transfer program study comes back for another vote, nobody else changes their mind, and Randall decides to vote yes, it will have the five votes it needs to pass. n

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As the county’s human services nonprofits have gotten better at writing applications for the county’s annual grant program, supervisors are looking to tighten up the requirements to win funding.

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Goodfriend reminded residents to wear a mask including in public outdoors, practice six feet of social distancing, and wash hands frequently.

The Loudoun County Medical Reserve Corps, which among other work assists in contact tracing and vaccination events, is always looking for volunteers, Goodfriend said. Both medical professionals and nonmedical volunteers are needed. More information about the Medical Reserve Corps, including an online registration form, is at loudoun.gov/mrc. n

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Health Department Director Dr. David Goodfriend is advising Loudouners to get their routine medical checkups done now, while doctor’s offices are less busy before the winter.

Loudoun’s COVID-19 cases are ticking upward again, which Goodfriend attributed to changes in weather driving people indoors, and to people relaxing their mask use and social distancing after long months of difficult pandemic precautions.

Goodfriend encouraged people to see the doctor soon, especially if they have been putting off tests, routine checkups or vaccinations. Of the additional deaths attributable to the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about two-thirds are related to COVID-19.

The others, he said, are largely due to people putting off visits to the doctor’s office, changing their lifestyles and diets, and increased substance abuse.

Right now, he said, doctor’s offices aren’t yet busy for the winter season.

That means now is the time to get any routine medical care or testing done

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its that met the minimum requirements to win funding, only 20 were funded. The lowest-ranked applicant to be funded was scored at 83.6%.

Members of the board’s finance committee have directed the county budget staff to prepare the next budget with an eye toward funding nonprofits that score a 75 or better, but Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said the bar should be kept where it is.

“I would actually go for the 70% line now that we’re coming up into this depression and recession, and I think the people are going to need a lot more help, and really for county like ours it’s just a drop in the bucket,” Briskman said.

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Leesburg

Fiscal Picture Improves, But Key Decisions Loom

BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ

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While the Town of Leesburg’s outlook for Fiscal Year 2021 has improved since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived stateside this spring, there’s muted enthusiasm from the town’s staff and financial advisors, as difficult decisions loom ahead.

Although a final audit for the past fiscal year of 2020 is not expected until December, initial indications are that the town will realize at least $1 million in savings, which will be carried over to help balance the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. Town Manager Kaj Dentler stressed these savings were not solely attributable to revenues exceeding projections, but critical action taken by the town government to tighten and cut expenditures in the spring. Those measures included freezing 18 staff positions and doing away with much of the town’s annual maintenance program. Long term, he and others stressed to the council during Monday night’s work session, these measures are not sustainable.

In the spring, the staff predicted a FY21 General Fund budget shortfall of $7.2 million. That number has improved slightly to a current estimate of $5.5 million, Management and Budget Officer Jason Cournoyer

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Nighttime work and street closures on King Street in downtown Leesburg continue. Many other projects, however, are suspended while the town grapples with the revenue fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

said. According to a staff report, lost revenues from the Parks and Recreation Department account for $2.15 million of that

shortfall. Ida Lee Park Recreation Center and its amenities were closed for months, and many programs and special events

were canceled or cut back. The report also shows an almost $2 million decrease in consumer taxes, with meals and beverage taxes accounting for almost $1 million of that shortfall.

The town staff is planning to continue many of the expenditure reduction practices put in place this past spring through the current fiscal year, including keeping those 18 positions frozen and suspending its Capital Asset Replacement Program.

The town’s financial consultant has also proposed that the council consider refinancing existing town debt to take advantage of historically low interest rates, and also to restructure issuances from previous years to free up to $3.7 million in cash flow.

A vote on that was expected for Tuesday night.

The staff also is hoping to use some of the leftover CARES Act funding the town received to reimburse itself for police department salaries in the current fiscal year.

They are estimating as much as $3 million could be leftover following the disbursements of grants to small businesses and nonprofits.

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McLister Proposes Residential Uses, But Council Remains Leery

BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ

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A downtown property owner is seeking to convert some of his nonresidential buildings into multi-family residential units ideal for middle-class income earners, but the Leesburg Town Council has reservations.

The proposal by Mike McLister went before the council during its work session Monday night. According to a staff report, McLister has proposed to convert his two commercial buildings at 109 South King St. and 2 Royal St., to residential use, allowing for the development of around nine multi-family dwelling units. Non-residential space would remain on the first floor of the South King Street building for commercial tenants, according to Planning and Zoning Department Director Susan Berry-Hill. The two buildings are about

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The McLister buildings at the corner of Loudoun Street and Royal Street in downtown Leesburg are the site of a proposal for multi-family residential units before the Leesburg Town Council now.

60 feet apart, and an addition would be built on the Royal Street property to allow for construction of some of the dwelling units.

In a report to the council, McLister notes that both of the existing commercial buildings are almost entirely vacant, and

that creating affordable residential units downtown would meet several objectives voiced by both council members the Town Plan. He also pointed to the changing working whims of the public in the midst of the pandemic, with many leaving office space to work from home, and referred to his projects as live-work units.

McLister is also proposing the development of a 14-unit residential building on a vacant 4,000-square-foot lot along Wirt Street.

On both projects, he pointed to the additional tax revenues the town could realize during a particularly challenging fiscal time.

Both proposals could come with their own sets of challenges, however. On the South King and Royal Street project, McLister would need to secure a Zoning Ordinance text amendment to reduce the minimum lot area requirement for res-

idential uses from 10,000 square feet to something less, according to a staff report.

Subdividing the property as McLister envisions would also trigger the requirement for frontage improvements, like curb, gutter and sidewalk, which McLister has maintained makes the project not financially viable. The town’s Capital Improvements Program already envisions a capital project of that ilk in 2023 and 2024.

On the Wirt Street project, McLister is not proposing to provide any parking on site, and instead is asking the town to consider allowing the use of currently metered parking spaces at the town-owned Liberty Street parking lot. The Wirt Street property is the location of parking spaces required for 107 W. Loudoun St., via an off-site parking agreement approved by the Planning Commission in 2016. Per MCLISTER continues on page 7

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McLister continued from page 6 the staff report, McLister would have the option of paying a payment in lieu fee of $6,920 per parking space, but has expressed opposition to this option. Another option would be to provide an alternate location for the current parking spaces.

Council members Monday, however, seemed more fixated on the process for considering the projects, than the proposals themselves.

Mayor Kelly Burk cited several concerns she had with different facets of the projects, but said her utmost worry lies with how McLister’s proposals were circumventing the usual process that a developer would follow.

“Whether this is a good project or not is completely irrelevant. This is the wrong process,” she said. “To bring this forward at this point … is an activity that is useless. It’s useless to Mr. Mclister, it’s useless to us. If this is an honest to God project it needs to go through the process of the [Board of Architectural Review] and Planning Commission, rather than come through with generalities. Is this the way we’re going to do business? All developers come directly to council? That’s what’s happened here and that concerns me.”

McLister did not have an opportunity to speak during Monday night’s work session, with only Councilman Ron Campbell voicing support to allow him to do so.

Campbell chided his council colleagues for not giving the proposals a fair vetting, and also pointed out that a majority of them had supported placing the matter on a work session agenda.

“This was raised because of looking

Fiscal decisions continued from page 6 look to manage through the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The year’s events have also reinforced the need for a Revenue Stabilization Fund, “so when these moments of crisis hit, we’re more prepared than we are,” Dentler said. The town manager said he hopes to create such a fund within the next year.

The four-year outlook goes through Fiscal Year 2023, at which time potential revenue from a town-county revenue-sharing agreement related to the Microsoft data center campus in Compass Creek is expected to kick in.

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at unmet housing needs and affordable housing. This wasn’t just an application for housing for any other particular purpose,” he said. “This was a timely proposal to deal with issues that we have today. I’m a little disappointed that we’re not willing to give this a fair hearing and an open process.”

Reached Tuesday, McLister expressed disappointment that the council did not give him an opportunity to explain his concept Monday night, and expressed hope that the new Town Council taking its seats Jan. 1, would be more open to exploring ideas “that provide comprehensive financial benefits to our town, small businesses, shops and help mid to lower income brackets.”

“We all know that our home is our office with corporations encouraging employees and teachers to work from home in a safe, efficient and cost-effective manner. In the midst of a pandemic, what a fantastic idea that we could be a beacon of light in the state to discuss, and possibly implement, areas of town revenue growth, business growth and helping mid to lower income tiers all at the same time.

We can do this. The Town Council voted to invite me to the Oct. 26 work session for what I thought was to put the topic of repurposing spaces, revenue increases for the town and adaptation to our business climate. Unfortunately, I was disallowed to speak and explain how repurposing properties returns businesses and citizens with the beneficiaries being the significant revenue growth for Leesburg and the surrounding restaurants and shops. It was a shame the concept of live-work units, adaptation and revenue growth were never even discussed.” n

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Education

Back-to-School Challenges Mount First Students Quarantined After Contact with Infected Staff Member

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On Tuesday, more Loudoun students returned to the classroom for two days of in-person classes each week—and the School Board continued to wrestle with how and when to expand the hybrid learning model to all students who want it.

In-person classes for students with disabilities began Oct. 13, sending approximately 850 students back to class two days a week as part of the hybrid learning plan.

This week 1,700 English language learners, 165 pre-kindergarteners, and 10,224 K-2 students were offered in-person classes as part of the hybrid program.

Under current plans, students in grades 3-5 are slated to return to class two days a week starting Dec. 1, along with seniors at the Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy of Science.

Meanwhile, last week marked the first time students were directed to quarantine at home after coming in close contact with an individual who had tested positive for COVID-19 while on campus. The cases were reported at Mountain View Elemen-

tary School, where it was determined that an unspecified number of students and staff members had spent at least 15 minutes within 6 feet of the staff member who had a positive test.

“While staff members have been very cautious in implementing required mitigation measures at Mountain View Elementary, in some circumstances it is not possible to maintain the recommended 6 feet of separation that is one factor in determining if a person is a close contact. Having identified individuals as close contacts, those individuals have been directed to quarantine for 14 days to prevent exposing others,” the division’s public information office stated in last week’s case.

On Monday, administrators announced that a student tested positive at River Bend Middle School and that several other students who were deemed to have had close contact also were sent home for 14 days.

There have been previous cases of students testing positive for the coronavirus since limited in-person classes began at the Monroe Advanced Technical Academy on Sept. 8, but none of those had resulted in close-contact exposures of others on

campus. The school division, almost daily, sends notices to parents and students reporting instances when staff members have tested positive and are isolating at home. Each case is investigated by the Loudoun County Health Department, which determines if there has been potential exposure to others. To date, more than 50 employees have been quarantined after potential workplace exposures.

Such notices are expected to continue as more students and teachers return to class. Requirements for cloth face coverings and desks spaced at least 6 feet apart are designed to limit interactions that could be deemed close contact under the public health guidance, thus limiting instances of quarantining. Only more widespread exposure would result in administrators and the health department sending home entire classes or temporarily closing a school, under the current procedures.

Those policies are providing a key obstacle to efforts to return middle and high school students to classrooms. Going into Tuesday’s meeting, administrators were BACK TO SCHOOL continues on page 9

Middle School Art Teacher Imitates Famous Portraits to Celebrate Halloween

BY PATRICK SZABO pszabo@loudounnow.com

Halloween for most is a time to get spooky. For others, it’s a month-long opportunity to fully get into character and showcase their passions to the community.

Eagle Ridge Middle School art teacher Jennifer De Angelo-Baxter has been dressing up as the subjects of famous portraits throughout the month as a way to keep virtual class time fun for her close to 150 sixth- and eighth-grade students—and for herself. So far, she has dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” and Andy Warhol’s “The

Marilyn Diptych.” Next up, she’ll be imitating Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” with the help of her husband.

De Angelo-Baxter said the idea to imitate the famous portraits this year was a call to previous years, when she and her

colleagues dressed up on Halloween as famous artists while teaching at Eagle Ridge. Last year, she dressed up as Warhol. The year before that, she painted her face in the style of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, using primary colors with contrasting black lines.

De Angelo-Baxter has been posting the photos all to her teacher Instagram account, @mrs_baxters_art_class. She plans to post “American Gothic” there on Saturday.

Dressing up during Halloween isn’t the only way De Angelo-Baxter has surprised her students. A year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic shut schools entirely, she and her colleagues surprised their students by dressing up as Bob Ross and taking them on a field trip to the Franklin Park Arts Center’s Bob Ross exhibit. n

SCHOOL Notebook Riverside Stadium Renamed in Memory of Fitz Thomas Acting on the request of Principal Doug Anderson and a coalition of students, the School Board on Tuesday approved the renaming of the Riverside High School stadium in memory of Fitz Thomas, a student athlete who drowned while swimming with friends in April.

School Board member Harris Mahedavi (Ashburn District) urged the School Board to move forward with the request.

While several schools and school facilities are named in honor of past educators and staff members, this is believed to be the first named in memory of the student.

2 New Staff Members Join Equity Panel The School Board on Tuesday filled two vacant staff member seats on the Equity Committee.

Jessica Harding, the equity and culturally responsive supervisor, and J. Simpson Middle School Principal Lenny Compton will join the 25-member panel that has spent a year studying concerns about systemic racism, staff training and recruitment and other issues.

The panel next meets Nov. 5

Division to Add Third Electric Bus In July, the School Board signed off on the purchase of the division’s first two electric-powered school buses through a special program offered

by Dominion Energy. This week, it approved the purchase of one more.

The effort began a year ago when the division applied to participate in Dominion Energy’s program designed to help localities replace traditional diesel buses with electric models. Loudoun was not one of the 16 divisions initially selected for the first 50 buses available. But then two became available and this month Loudoun was informed there was one more.

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Public Safety

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Joseph Lucio III, the man charged with murdering his Leesburg housemate, last week waived his right to a preliminary hearing today. His case has been certified to a grand jury for review.

At about 4 a.m. on April 7, Leesburg Police officers were called to a home in the Fox Chapel neighborhood off Fort Evans Road SE for a report of a man in cardiac arrest.

Upon arrival, the officers found Joel Rodriguez-Quezada, 48, with apparent trauma to his face and head.

He died at the scene.

Detectives say Lucio and Rodriguez-Quezada, who were housemates, were involved in a physical altercation that night.

Lucio was initially charged with first-degree murder, which carries a punishment of 20 years to life in prison if convicted. Prosecutors last Wednesday agreed to reduce that charge to second-degree murder, which carries a punishment of five to 40 years in prison if convicted.

A grand jury will next convene on Nov. 9. If it indicts Lucio on the charge of second-degree murder, Lucio’s case will next be scheduled for trial in Circuit Court.

Lucio has been held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center since April. n

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New body worn cameras have been deployed to 74 Loudoun deputies as part of an expansion of a six-year-old pilot program.

Sheriff Expands Body Camera Program LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT

The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office recently expanded its body worn camera program to 74, as part of a program supported by the Board of Supervisors in the FY 2021 budget.

The program launched in 2015 with 48 cameras funded by a grant. Those original cameras have been updated and improved for field use and the new equipment offers additional features, such as automatic activation when a vehicle’s emergency equipment is activated.

The agency also has entered a study

conducted by the CNA Center for Justice Research and Innovation and the National Sheriffs’ Association to put body cameras on corrections officers working in the Adult Detention Center. There, 66 body worn cameras are in use. The study is intended to examine how the technology effects can improve deputy safety, reduce the prevalence of serious events, provide cost savings, and reduce inmate violence and misconduct.

The agency also worked with the county’s Department of Information Technology to allow the recorded vid-

eos to be stored on the county’s network, making the system less expensive and the recordings more easily accessible.

The agency also operates 317 in-car cameras installed in every patrol vehicle within the Operations Division.

“The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office has taken great efforts to build trust with all members of our community,” Sheriff Mike Chapman stated. “The additional Body Worn Cameras will further enhance the mutual respect between our deputies and each and every resident they encounter.” n

Sheriff’s Office Investigates Fatal Crash in Ashburn LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT

The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating a fatal crash that happened Monday morning on Waxpool Road near Farmwell Road.

The preliminary investigation found that a passenger vehicle was traveling

southbound in the northbound lane on Waxpool Road when it struck an oncoming pickup.

The passenger vehicle had five occupants. One died at the scene and four were transported to area hospitals for treatment. Three of those injured were consid-

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The pickup driver was transported to an area hospital for treatment of injuries described as minor.

The name of the victim was not immediately released. n

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100WomenStrong Issues More Emergency Needs Grants 100WomenStrong has completed a sixth round of funding to help nonprofit organizations that provide services in Loudoun County to meet new and emerging requirements created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this round, the philanthropy group is donating $42,555 to seven nonprofits, supporting the purchase of supplies to support distance learning, personal protection and deep cleaning; the administration of flu vaccines; the expansion of a free diaper program; and the delivery of housing scholarships for those experiencing substance use disorders.

100WomenStrong plans to continue with monthly assessments of requests through the end of 2020 and make distributions, as necessary.

“Area nonprofits must deliver services under new, challenging and changing constraints. There is no possible way they could have budgeted last year for what

GIVING back Hearts of Empowerment Passes CARES Act Funds to Nonprofits To address increasing food insecurity during the pandemic, Hearts of Empowerment, a nonprofit focused on sourcing funding and raising awareness for the campaigns of other nonprofits—has committed money awarded through Loudoun County’s allocation from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to assist local organizations with stocking food items and providing school supplies to our local youth and families in need.

they have faced this year. For example, organizations that have offered in-person classes and support groups have had to change their delivery model to a virtual one,” said Karen G. Schaufeld, president and founder of 100WomenStrong. “Those that have started offering in-person services must adhere to stringent cleaning protocols that require supplies they may never have anticipated buying, such as PPE. They also must adhere to distancing requirements, which prompts the need for more desks, tables and other equipment.

“Demands such as these likely will continue to grow while, concurrently, no one can predict when things will go back “Demand for emergency food services has drastically increased in Loudoun County since the middle of March. The number of families seeking our services has increased from around 250 a week to a peak of about 800 a week,” said Jennifer Montgomery, Executive Director of Loudoun Hunger Relief. “Hearts of Empowerment’s efforts will assist in serving those in need in our community. It warms our hearts to see our community standing alongside and up for our families in need.”

Hearts of Empowerment has allocated $5,231 for grocery items and school supplies. These items have gone to: Echo Works, Loudoun Hunger Relief, Mobile Hope of Loudoun, the Loudoun Coun-

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to normal for nonprofits,” Schaufeld continued. “We plan to maintain the level of monitoring we have been conducting since March and offer support where we can.”

Since the pandemic started, the group has disbursed 51 grants, totaling more than $403,000, to nonprofit organizations which serve Loudoun County. It also donated $50,000 to create the “Pay it Forward” Direct Assistance loan program, which has generated more than $90,000 in additional donations from the community, and $25,000 worth of PPE to first responders.

Formed in 2008, 100WomenStrong is a group of concerned philanthropists seeking to strategically invest in organizations and programs that enrich the lives of Loudoun County residents, supporting nonprofits working in the areas of shelter, health, hunger and education.

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Each year hemorrhage or uncontrolled bleeding accounts for nearly 1.9 million deaths worldwide and loss of blood is the leading cause of preventable death from injury. As part of the region’s innovative FACT*R (Field Available Coordinated

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The Chris Atwood Foundation - $7,000 ECHO - $6,500 Healthworks - $10,000 Loudoun Literacy Council $2,255 Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers - $7,500 Loudoun Homeless Services Center - $6,300 Women Giving Back $3,000

HundredWomenStrong.org or contact Pam Ray at Pam@OneHundredWomenStrong.org. n Transfusion Response) program, whole blood is now being carried on Emergency Medical Services units in both Loudoun and Arlington counties. The success of the FACT*R program is directly impacted by the availability of blood from Inova Blood Donor Services and community donations.

“Blood products donated through Inova stay local, right here in the Northern Virginia region, so your donation is truly an example of neighbors helping neighbors,” noted System Chief Keith H. Johnson.

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Loudoun County Salvation Army Gets New Officers The Loudoun County Salvation Army is under new leadership. Sergeants John and Sharon McKee were appointed to the post in July.

Over the past several months, they have focused helping the corps staff, volunteers, and advisory board members to expand food distribution, create a diaper bank, and improve the store’s appearance and service for customers. For the first time, the corps applied for monetary grants and received one each from Loudoun County and Leesburg.

John McKee is following a family tradition, as his grandparents, uncles, cousins, and brother have served as Salvation Army officers. Prior to becoming an officer, he worked as a software/IT specialist for automotive quality assurance and then spent fourteen years in the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

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BUSINESS announcements

Business

RUI Promotes Two Executives

Norman K. Styer/Loudoun Now

Raymond James Financial Services Branch Manager Tony Nerantzis, flanked by his wife Stephanie and son Michael was joined by Mayor Kelly Burk in celebrating the opening of his new Loudoun Street office Monday afternoon.

Raymond James Completes Move to Downtown Leesburg

BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com

With the help of Mayor Kelly Burk and other community leaders, Tony Nerantzis & Associates and Raymond James formally unveiled their new office space, located on the corner of Loudoun and Harrison Streets, with a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday afternoon.

Raymond James is one of the nation’s largest financial services companies and Tony Nerantzis, the branch manager and licensed principal, has operated as an independent advisor with Raymond James since 2014.

Nerantzis has been providing wealth management services to high-net-worth clients for over 33 years and manages approximately $350 million in assets as of Sept. 30. The practice provides portfolio and investment advice to businesses, foundations, endowments, non-profits, and individuals. The office includes two financial advisors and client service associates.

The new office is located at the corner

of Loudoun and Harrison streets.

“We believe that the partnership with Raymond James and its innovative capabilities, combined with the expertise and client-oriented culture of our investment team, enables us to deliver the level of service our clients expect and deserve,” Nerantzis said. “Our new office makes us more accessible and gives us the ability to grow. It is a large, beautiful space that we hope is welcoming. Even during the pandemic, we want to our clients to know we are here, and happy to meet with them either in-person or virtually. We designed the space with these concerns in mind.”

Nerantzis had been searching for a new office location for several years. He told supporters that staying in Leesburg was important to him.

“Some of you know that I grew up in a small town, though some would say on the wrong side of the Potomac River and that’s probably why I feel so blessed to be in the heart of downtown Leesburg,” he said. “As many of you know I’ve been looking for the right space for the last five years and even considered looking else-

where in the county. However, Leesburg to me is home. Aside from living here the town is vibrant and has turned into a great business and giving community. It’s truly where I always wanted to be.”

He acknowledged that the move might be bucking trends as companies move toward teleworking and shedding office space during the pandemic.

“I will say, in a time when many businesses are reducing office space and client interface—first because they had to and now because they can—it may seem counterintuitive that we are growing our space,” Nerantzis said. “We also learned during the worst of the pandemic that we can serve our clients very well remotely.

He said there was an opportunity to put a halt to the expansion and go in a different direction, but that didn’t fit the company’s operations.

“For those of you who know us, meeting with and getting to know our clients has always been at the heart of what we do. And while we are here for everyone RAYMOND JAMES continues on page 15

Retirement Unlimited, Inc., a Virginia family-owned and operated senior living community management company has named Amanda Waggy Waggy as senior director of sales and Alissa Schroeder as senior director of business development for the Northern Virginia region, which includes the Ashleigh at Lansdowne community.

The promotions are part of RUI’s growth strategy to accommodate the openings of two communities in 2019, a community opening in 2020, and two additional communities in the development phase in Virginia.

Waggy has been with RUI since 2016 as director of Marketing and Community Relations for several northern Virginia communities. She has experience in both long-standing and lease-up communities and has been a part of the senior healthcare industry for nearly 10 years. She will oversee the sales and business development for Ashleigh at Lansdowne Community and The Wellington at Lake Manassas Community.

Schroeder has been with RUI since 2017 as director of Marketing and Community Relations for several northern Virginia communities. She started her career in senior living 20 years ago as an activity assistant in an assisted living community. She will oversee the sales and business development for Heatherwood Community in Burke, Aarondale Community in Springfield, and Paul Spring Community in Alexandria.

RUI is owned and operated by the Virginia families of Fralin and Waldon. Led by its third generation of Fralins and second generation of Waldrons, RUI has 10 senior living communities throughout Virginia and several active development projects.

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PME Lands Federal Training Contract The U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of Fiscal Service has awarded Leesburg-based Project Management Experts a five-year, $1.9 million Blanket Purchase Agreement to provide project management training to the agency.

PME’s will provide project management and other professional and management development training to Fiscal Service.

“Through our partnership with PM Essentials in Arlington, VA and our con-

Raymond James continued from page 14 who wants to meet virtually, our doors are open for business for those who was to meet in-person,” he said. “With that in mind the space was designed to make all feel welcomed and with the ability to meet safely.”

Nerantzis and his wife, Stephanie, have lived in Leesburg for over 20 years and

sortium of subject matter experts and instructors, we are committed to enhancing the project management competencies of the organizations we support,” stated PME President Joseph D. Launi. “We’re excited to help the Bureau of Fiscal Service with its training program.”

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are active in the community. He serves on the board of directors of the Ryan Bartell Foundation and is active with the Dulles Rotary Club, where he has been a member since 2004 and has served as the club’s president. Stephanie is the chair of the board of the Loudoun Abused Woman’s Shelter.

The new office is located at 201 Loudoun St. SE in Leesburg. Learn more at raymondjames.com/leesburg. n

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Ever and Soren Johnson pose in the courtyard of their Trinity House Café during a anniversary celebration on Saturday.

Trinity House Café Celebrates Anniversary Ever and Soren Johnson celebrated the sixth anniversary of the Trinity House Café on Saturday with a special gathering of friends and supporters.

The coffee shop, located at 101 E. Market St., opened Oct. 24, 2014. Owned by the nonprofit John Paul II Fellowship and directed by the Johnsons, the café typically sponsors a range of community events

from craft circles to concerts, although much of that remains on hold even after emerging from a seven-week closure caused by the pandemic.

Sunday’s event—including birthday cake and coloring for the kids—was offered as a thank you to the community for the years of support.

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Pro Rugby Team Coming to Loudoun LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT

The DC area’s professional rugby team is coming to Segra Field near Leesburg for 2021.

Old Glory DC will play that season at the stadium at Philip A. Bolen Memorial Park, just outside Leesburg, joining men’s pro soccer team Loudoun United and women’s pro soccer team Washington Spirit. It will be the team’s second season, following an inaugural campaign at Catholic University’s Cardinal Stadium.

“As we introduce new fans in our area to rugby, it is so important that we present the game in its pure form and in a truly professional venue that allows for our family-friendly, fan-first match day style,” stated Old Glory Chairman Chris Dunlavey. “Segra Field is simply beautiful. Our players and coaches are already in love with the field and support facilities, and it is only a matter of time until our supporters feel the same way about the venue and its surroundings.”

Segra Field, according to the organization, will provide “the best possible presentation of the sport of rugby,” with

the right size field, quality turf, and good views from comfortable seating, along with tailgating, a beer garden, and kids’ play area.

“It is great to have Segra Field confirmed as our home venue for the 2021 season,” stated Head Coach Andrew Douglas. “It is a beautiful turf pitch, and having 5,000 fans right alongside the touchline will create a great atmosphere.

To have a pitch that allows us to play a wide, expansive game is exciting for players and fans and not having football markings on the field will make it easier for everyone to follow play. We’re looking forward to working alongside D.C. United and we are certainly looking forward to the 2021 season.”

The move to Segra Field establishes a working relationship between Old Glory DC and D.C. United, through their affiliate United Soccer League team Loudoun United.

“Our vision, in partnership with the Economic Development team of Loudoun County, for Segra Field is to create a community hub, a place for families and friends to gather and create lifelong

memories together while enjoying a diverse set of sporting and entertainment events,” stated D.C. United Co-Chairman and CEO Jason Levien. “We’re thrilled to be able to welcome our professional rugby team, Old Glory, to our home in Leesburg, joining the Washington Spirit and Loudoun United FC.” Old Glory leaders said the team came to Segra in part to avoid complicating social distancing efforts at Catholic University, and because Loudoun United has already successfully pulled off socially distant games at Segra. Old Glory has already begun to host socially distanced academy combines and training there, too.

Dunlavey said Catholic University has been “unbelievably supportive” and he plans to maintain the relationship.

“But, especially in this year impacted by COVID-19, it seemed clear we shouldn’t try to jam our own schedule and demands into the complex situation the University is facing in solving for its impacted Athletics schedule, overall enrollment management, and campus safety protocols,” Dunlavey stated.

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Critical Issues • We must address the financial impact of COVID-19 that is estimated at a 25% loss in small businesses and a greater impact on the loss of local jobs.

• Develop a comprehensive five year financial recovery plan that addresses our structural financial impact that today is estimated at over $15 million dollars.

• We cannot tax our way back to good financial health.

As Mayor, Ron will: • Provide fair and impartial leadership to all members of the Leesburg community.

• Be the leading voice of the Town and be an informed advocate of the interests of our diverse community.

• Be a principled leader among the other elected members of the Town Council and create an atmosphere of civility.

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BLUEMONT Fall Pumpkin Harvest Ends on Saturday

Lovettsville Square South

The Lovettsville Cooperative Market will open its community grocery store in Phase II of the Lovettsville Square.

Lovettsville Co-op Advances Downtown Grocery Store; County Outlines New Fire Station Plans

BY PATRICK SZABO

pszabo@loudounnow.com

Schematics for Lovettsville’s fire station property have been laid out, but they no longer include plans to host the Lovettsville Cooperative Market’s grocery store.

Instead, the co-op will open that store in the heart of town, possibly as early as July 2022.

Co-op Chairman John DeSaix announced last Friday the co-op would open a 7,000-square-foot grocery store in the Town Square commercial center in a building Lovettsville Square South LLC intends to construct between Town Square, Berlin Turnpike, Hammond Drive and Wood Aster Lane. Construction is expected to begin the second half of 2021 with a grand opening planned for the third quarter of 2022.

The grocery store will be open seven days a week to all and will feature a deli and grab-and-go lunch and dinner meals.

It will also be stocked with local beer and wine. DeSaix said 75% of the items the grocery store sells would be natural and/ or organic.

He said the store would have the most

employees out of any private employer in town and that it would pump $1 million annually into the local economy.

Perhaps the best news for Lovettsville residents is that they will no longer have to drive to Brunswick, MD or Purcellville to shop for groceries.

“There will be no more driving miles just to get your groceries,” DeSaix said.

“It’s taken years of planning, study and perseverance, but it’s going to happen.”

DeSaix said the co-op leadership team would be working with architects in the coming months and would initiate a capital campaign in early 2021 to raise money for the store’s construction. Co-op leadership will ask member owners for loans to the organization that they will earn interest on.

Previously, the co-op had planned to open its grocery store in about 5,000 square feet of the town’s existing fire station once the county builds a new station next door. DeSaix said that project was going to cost the co-op about $1 million to renovate the station into a full-service grocery store and equip it with amenities like a freezer, a full kitchen and deli.

To do that, the town had to annex the

15-acre fire station property because if it were to have remained on county-owned property, county zoning regulations would have required at least 25% of the products the co-op sold at the grocery store to be grown on site, which the organization does not plan to do.

Of course, the Co-op never requested the annexation, nor held a public stance on the matter.

As for the new, $14.5 million, 18,500-square-foot fire station, Loudoun County Fire Chief Keith Johnson and Chris Kehde, a principal with LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects, presented the Town Council last Thursday night with details on those plans. The new Station 12 will be built just south of the existing 17,000-square-foot fire station.

The county staff expects the new Station 12 to be fully designed by fall 2021 and built by summer 2023, according to Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure Communications Manager Shawn Taylor Zelman.

The new station will feature four apparatus bays, a kitchen and dining areas, GROCERY/FIREHOUSE continues on page 20

Great Country Farms’ Fall Pumpkin Harvest will conclude on Saturday, Oct. 31.

The farm’s main attraction is its 12-acre play area, which features the 2020 Henway Corn Maze, two 2,800-square-foot jumping pillows, an 80-foot slide, a bouncy cow corral, an 18-hole putt-putt golf course, a rope maze, a goat tree house, farm animals to feed and pet, rope swings, catch and release fishing and more.

The festival also features wagon rides to pick pumpkins from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cider pressing demonstrations at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.; marshmallow roasting from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; live music from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; a market and play area that are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and until 6 p.m. on Saturday; and pumpkin cannons that cost $5 for five shots and a cow train that costs $2 per ride.

Admission to the festival is $12 for adults and $10 for children during the weekdays and $16 for adults and $14 for children on the weekend. Children aged 2 and under get in free.

For more information, go to greatcountryfarms.com.

HAMILTON Utility Bill Payments Due Sunday Town utility customers’ bi-monthly water and sewer bills are due Sunday, Nov. 1.

Customers may pay their bills online by selecting “utility payments” on the homepage of the town website—hamiltonva.gov. Presently, intown water customers are charged $5.71 per 1,000 gallons of water usage up to 8,000 gallons. Out-of-town water customers are charged $7.71 for that same amount.

In-town sewer customers are charged $10.88 per 1,000 gallons of usage for up to 8,000 gallons. Out-oftown sewer customers are charged $14.68 for that same amount.

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LOVETTSVILLE Town Refinances Debt to Save $14K Annually The Lovettsville Town Council last week voted to refinance the town’s existing bonds in a way that will see the town paying interest rates that are down by 1.5% from before.

The refinancing will see the town paying new interest rates at 1.57%, as opposed to the previous 3.12% it was previously paying on the bonds. The action will save the town of $14,171 each year.

Fontaine Reminds Residents to Obey Town Sign Ordinance Lovettsville Mayor Nate Fontaine reminded residents and businesses in his Oct. 23 email newsletter to stay in compliance with the town’s sign ordinance—especially with the Nov. 3 election a week away and many people deciding to set up political signs in their yards.

Individual residences are permitted to display an address sign, up to two flags and a temporary yard sign without obtaining a permit. Residents can apply for a permit to have one pole- or wall-mounted sign. Businesses are permitted to have up to three permanent signs and a portable sign that is regularly removed during off-hours. Businesses can also have one temporary sign without obtaining a sign permit. During COVID-19-related restrictions, though, property owners are allowed to display up to three temporary signs without a permit.

Signs cannot be in the public right-ofway or on rooftops and they cannot have lighting that makes them appear to move.

The town does not regulate national and state flags or other government signs.

“The purpose of the sign ordinances is to allow effective signage appropriate to the character of each zoning district, to promote an attractive environment by minimizing visual clutter and confusion, to minimize adverse impacts on nearby property and to protect the public health, safety and general welfare,” Fontaine wrote, adding that the town staff has not had to cite or require anyone to remove signs this election season.

MIDDLEBURG Council Re-appoints Scheps to Health Center Advisory Board The Middleburg Town Council last

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week voted to re-appoint Erik Scheps to the Health Center Advisory Board.

Scheps will serve on the board through Dec. 31, 2021. The advisory board recommends to the Town Council the ways in which the town should donate money from the Health Center Fund, which historically has been comprised of rent payments from tenants in the Health Center building off Madison Street.

The town sold that property to Old Ox Brewery in late 2018 for $750,000. That money goes in the town’s Health Center Fund, which the town uses to donate to charity, per the terms of the property’s 1939 incorporation document.

Byrne Gallery to Celebrate 25 Years with Nov. 14 Event The Byrne Gallery will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a reception from 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14.

The reception will mark the opening of a new exhibit showcasing the work of Yuri Gorbachev, who has exhibited his artwork in the gallery every year for 17 years. Gorbachev is on a world tour now through 2021 with museum shows in Russia, Ukraine, Czechia and more nations in Europe and the Far East. In Middleburg, he’ll be showcasing his newest paintings, which are inspired by Byzantine art and

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feature colorful canvases in oil and gold leaf.

Gorbachev’s paintings have illustrated Absolut and Stolichnaya Vodka advertisements that have appeared in hundreds of magazines across the world. He was also commissioned by Stolichnaya Red Vodka in 2011 and 2012 to design a new label for the bottles.

The Byrne Gallery is open Monday and Tuesday by appointment only, Wednesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 12-5 p.m. It is located at 7 W. Washington St. TOWN NOTES continues on page 21

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Purcellville Staff to Negotiate 5-Year Lease for Temporary Police HQ

BY PATRICK SZABO pszabo@loudounnow.com

The Purcellville Police Department will remain in its current location at least through February 2026.

The Town Council on Tuesday night voted unanimously to authorize the town staff to negotiate a new, five-year lease with the Lowers Risk Group for the agency to remain in the 4,300-squarefoot building it has leased since 2005.

Town Attorney Sally Hankins has been authorized to expend no more than $1.5 million to both execute the lease and perform security-related improvements to the building. The Police Department in the next five years also will expand its operations in the space by another 2,000 square feet.

The town is paying $9,700 monthly on its lease with Lowers, which expires in February. Police Chief Cynthia McAlister last week said the space, which was intended to house the town’s police force until 2015 at most, is inadequate and cramped. She has said on multiple occasions that the building is also not as secure as it should be.

“There’s nothing safe about that building,” she said last Wednesday.

This week’s vote to remain in the Lowers space followed a two-hour discussion last Wednesday. At that meeting the Town Council had resolved to wait to hear back from the town’s financial advi-

sor in December until further discussing options for a new temporary and/or permanent police headquarters.

A chief concern among council members last Wednesday was the notion that waiting another decade to build a new police headquarters would cost the town millions of dollars more than pulling the trigger in the next few years.

Overall, if the town builds a new police headquarters in the next three years, it will cost a minimum of $6.4 million in hard costs. If it waits to build the headquarters until 2030, it will cost a minimum of $8.4 million, according to the Oct. 21 presentation by Moseley Architects. During that time, the town will also need to continue leasing a temporary location for its police force.

The town’s financial advisor, David Rose, the senior vice president at Davenport, said last week that the town will inevitably be stuck paying about $1 million on a temporary location regardless of whether the police force remains in a leased space for three or 10 years. He said to build a permanent headquarters in the next three years, the town will need to borrow $7 million for 25 years, which will likely come with an annual interest rate of 3.5%. Rose mentioned that all costs associated with building a permanent police headquarters will rise exponentially as inflation heightens and interest rates increase from today’s historically low levels.

“I think that’s a pretty substantial ar-

gument,” Town Manager David Mekarski said of the drive to get the ball rolling on the project.

Moseley Architects Vice President Josh Bennet last week presented five options for temporary headquarters locations—the existing Lowers location, a 7,500-square-foot temporary headquarters off Pickwick Drive, a 7,800-squarefoot temporary headquarters in the former Dragon Hops Brewing building off Main Street, the town-owned 1,610-square-foot Pullen House adjacent to the Fireman’s Field complex near the town hall, and a trailer on the Basham Simms Wastewater Facility.

Of those five, Moseley had identified the former Dragon Hops building— which previously served as the town office—as being the most favorable temporary location.

Bennett last week also provided four location options for construction of a permanent headquarters—one just south of Woodgrove High School along Mayfair Crown Drive, one off Hirst Road across Maple Avenue from the fire station, one just west of the town limits off West Main Street, and another on 2.25 acres of the Basham Simms Wastewater Facility property.

Moseley anticipates it will take 12 months to build a permanent headquarters from the day the selected construction company breaks ground. Mekarski said the permanent headquarters needs to last the town at least 40 years.

Lovettsville Co-op continued from page 18 an exercise room, administrative offices, an equipment and maintenance room and living quarters including seven two-person bunks.

Johnson said the engine bays would feature bi-fold doors, which will open like accordions and open and close faster than overhead doors to allow for faster response times and to allow less heat and air conditioning to escape.

Kehde said the station would be “state of the art.” Mayor Nate Fontaine said the new station would be an upgrade from the existing station for the firefighters.

“It’s definitely a plus-up from what they have now,” he said.

Johnson said the new station was also designed to fit in with the Lovettsville community. “I am happy we achieved that,” he said.

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The Lovettsville Cooperative Market’s planned community grocery store in the Town Square.

Fontaine said that would be important, since the station is at the entryway to town.

“This will be a great addition to the community overall,” he said.

The town’s annexation of the fire station property helped Station 12 volunteers in their drive to continue Saturday-night bingo.

In 2015, they learned of the county’s plans to build the new fire station absent of an assembly hall and learned that county zoning regulations would prevent them from continuing to host bingo in the existing station’s assembly hall.

So in March 2017, at the suggestion of then-mayor Bob Zoldos, the volunteers

During last week’s discussion, Councilman Stanley Milan said the town should hold off on its push to find a new police headquarters since it has not “zealously” addressed needed utility work— work that, if left uncompleted, could adversely affect the town’s 10,200-resident population.

“We currently have a somewhat adequate police department,” Milan said.

“We can push this can down the road another year. … Our capital improvement can’t be kicked down the road any further.”

Although Rose emphasized that town leaders should not conflate the town’s utility and general funds, Milan said “debt is debt.” Mayor Kwasi Fraser echoed Milan’s sentiment, noting that taxpayers don’t differentiate between the town’s general and utility funds.

Councilman Tip Stinnette said he has heard multiple residents question why the town needs to incur more debt to build a new police headquarters when the town is already rated as the safest community in Virginia—as noted by the National Council For Home Safety and Security. He said the town needs to further review debt restructuring options before the Town Council moves forward on with a permanent police headquarters build.

Davenport representatives are expected to brief the Town Council on debt restructuring options on Dec. 8. n submitted an annexation application to the town, which the Town Council approved in May 2018. Four months later, the county Board of Supervisors and the Town Council both voted to approve a boundary line agreement, which the Loudoun County Circuit Court approved in November 2018.

The annexation grew the town’s size by about 0.911 acres—fitting for a firehouse.

In January 2019, the council voted to direct the Planning Commission to prepare and recommend a comprehensive plan amendment to include land use plans for the property. The council approved that amendment in May 2019.

As for other plans on the fire station property, the town also intends to build an elevated water tower for public and governmental uses in the coming years.

Get updates on the county’s fire station project at loudoun.gov/5415/Lovettsville-Fire-Rescue-Station. Learn more about the Co-op’s grocery store plans at lovettsville-grocery.com. n

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PURCELLVILLE Sullivan Retires from Community Development Role Purcellville Director of Community Development Patrick Sullivan recently retired after close to a decade working in that role.

Sullivan started in Purcellville in February 2011. During the past decade, he oversaw multiple comprehensive plan updates, the most recent of which the Town Council approved in June this year. The new plan, which the Planning Commission worked on for five years, plans for the town’s growth through 2030.

Before working Purcellville, Sullivan worked as the director of community development for the Town of Lake Park, FL from April 2006 to January 2011 and as the senior planner in Hilton Head Island, SC before that.

The Town Council was expected to appoint someone to fill Sullivan’s position at its Oct. 27 meeting.

Town Seeks Applications for Police Advisory Committee The Purcellville Town Council is accepting applications from in-town residents and Woodgrove and Loudoun Valley High School students aged 16 and up interested in serving on the Community Policing Advisory Committee. The deadline to apply is Nov. 20. The Town Council will hold interviews with applicants in early December.

The Town Council will appoint committee members to serve two-year terms, although four of the inaugural terms will stretch only one year so that terms can be staggered from that point forward. Town employees are disallowed from applying.

According to a town statement, the committee will enhance communication and community engagement between police and residents, businesses and visitors; promote the equal and fair treatment of all residents by town law enforcement officers; promote respect for town police by publicly recognizing their training and good work; raise awareness about injustice in policing and educate on ways the town seeks to promote equality in its policing; and improve public trust of the town police through increased communication and education.

To apply for a spot on the committee, fill out an application on the town website or pick up a hard copy at the town hall during normal business hours.

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Town Council Declines to Borrow $3M for Projects The Purcellville Town Council voted unanimously last Wednesday against authorizing the town staff to take out a $3 million line of credit from the Bank of Charles Town with a 1.81-percent interest rate to finance general and utility capital projects.

According to a staff report, the town has multiple pressing water projects totaling $15.5 million, with the top eight critical projects totaling $6.3 million and needing attention before June 2024.

By the end of Fiscal Year 2024, the town’s utility funds will have a cumulative shortfall of $8.5 million, which will be

$4.4 million below what the town’s fiscal policy calls for. To compensate for that reduction, the town will need to transfer $8.5 million from its $12.4 million across both the water and sewer fund cash reserve accounts, leaving only $3.9 million in those reserves.

For weeks, Town Manager David Mekarski has been pressing the Town Council to authorize his team to take out the line of credit so the town can take advantage of the historically low interest rates.

After the COVID-19 pandemic hit America in March, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates down to a range of 0-0.25%. The fed continues to hold interest rates at those levels.

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PAGE 21 Councilman Tip Stinnette said that instead of incurring more debt, the Town Council and staff should work together to propel projects that will generate revenue for the town, such as setting up a nutrient credit bank or installing a solar field on the Aberdeen property, finding a firm to construct a new cell tower so the town can lease spots to cellular carriers, selling reclaimed water, and further examining a proposal to annex the former 120-acre Warner Brook property, which would net the town millions of dollars in utility tap fees and ongoing revenue in the forms of tax and utility rate payments. Stinnette also suggested the town staff apply for more grants.

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Unions continued from page 1 ment offices on Ridgetop Circle in Sterling.

Supervisors also directed the staff to allow for those organizations to include materials in the county’s new hire packets, if they have more than 100 members who are Loudoun County government employees.

The change was introduced by County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) and Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling). Randall said now is the time to get in front of the change by preparing the county government and its employees.

“We’re no longer talking about whether ‘meet and confer’ and/or collective bargaining will come to Virginia,” Randall said. “That’s already done. Were it not for COVID, it would probably be here already.”

Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) said the change is “putting the cart before the horse,” and that just because collective bargaining will come to Virginia in May doesn’t mean it will automatically be coming to Loudoun.

“I understand the political realities of the board in that it probably will pass, but we’re going to have a discussion next month at the finance committee about what the financial implications of that are,”

said Letourneau, who chairs that committee.

Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin) evoked the murder of George Floyd to argue against unions.

“Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd, who was a police officer, and he was part of a union, and we’ve seen this in many other police departments across the country—they had collective bargaining, it’s become pretty evident that he had 17 misconduct complaints and yet remained a member of the Minneapolis Police Department,” Kershner said. “Why? Because when you set up a collective bargaining system, you make it very, very difficult if not impossible to fire individuals.”

“I can point to as many examples of law enforcement agencies that are not unionized that have as many abuses as those that are,” said Supervisor Michael R. Turner (D-Ashburn). “You can abuse a system without unions, and you can abuse a system with unions.”

Saines pointed out that several workers’ organizations already exist in Loudoun, such as the Police Benevolent Association and the Loudoun Career Fire Fighters Association, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 3756.

“I’m not sure when unions became a

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bad word,” Saines said. “If it were not for unions, we would not have a five-day work week, eight-hour days, holidays, paid time off, overtime, child labor laws in place, minimum wage, good benefits for employees—I could go on and on.”

Supervisors voted 6-3, with Supervisors Letourneau, Kershner and Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge) opposed.

“For a very long time there’s been a meta-message in Loudoun County that unions were not welcome, and you have to be really careful to join a union, and I want to change that message,” Randall said.

Choice to Fall to Employees Randall said the ball will be in county employees’ court once the new law goes into effect.

Under the new state law, public employees will also be able to force a vote on whether to allow unions. If a majority of eligible employees in a certain class ask the local governing body for a vote, that body has 120 days to hold a vote on whether to allow collective bargaining, although nothing can force the local board to approve collective bargaining.

The possibility of unionization has already impacted other considerations, such as discussions by county supervisors about whether they should take over governance of the public library system. County Administrator Tim Hemstreet told the board’s finance committee on Oct. 13 that having a separate Library Board of Trustees, but funding coming largely from the Board of Supervisors, could complicate matters if library staff unionize.

It also comes after supervisors approved an overhaul of the county’s pay scales and job descriptions, facing concerns that Loudoun’s public employees were underpaid and overworked when compared with other Northern Virginia jurisdictions.

Firefighters, too, have also seen pay bumps to bring them in line with other jurisdictions, and are particularly expensive to replace.

But Randall said she will wait for the county’s employees to come to the board before taking any action. And as Saines pointed out, some of them are already members of workers organizations—including more than 200 in the SEIU. “Our members play a critical role in advocating for budgets that invest in good jobs and invest in quality services,” SEIU Virginia 512 President David Broder said.

The chapter covers both Loudoun and Fairfax, and Broder said it has also played a role in the pandemic response, including partnering with the Board of Supervisors

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to make sure frontline workers have the protective equipment they need. They’ve also pushed to make sure workers have job flexibility such as telework or flexible schedules care for both the public they serve and their own families and selves.

“We know that during a pandemic there are tough choices to be made, and I think from that angle, it’s really critical just for the success of the county that workers have a seat at the table, because nobody knows better than frontline workers which services are needed and where we can be flexible,” Broder said.

He said workers are already organizing to ask the county board for that vote after May 1, and that his phone has been “pretty routinely ringing off the hook.”

Randall also said the new law has some problems, in that it excludes state employees and constitutional officers.

“There are some departments where you would have a county employee and a state employee working side by side, like in the Health Department or court services,” Randall said. That would mean people working in the same office—sometimes with similar job titles—would be under different rules for negotiating their employment contracts.

Broder said that battle is still being fought.

“The legislation to repeal the ban on collective bargaining this year I think was among the most historic pieces of legislation that the General Assembly passed this year, at the same time recognizing that it’s an incremental step,” Broder said. But, he said, collective bargaining “is a fundamental human right,” and he said he expects expanding on that right to be a political campaign issue in 2021.

And Randall pointed to her own family’s experience with unions, including for her grandfather, a Pullman porter, and her father, a United States Postal Service employee.

“The whole question about unions is very, very valid, you can let anything get out of control, so they’re valid questions,” Randall said. “I don’t know how much it will cost. Those will all be things we have to take a look at. I know that before we did the compensation and classification study, we had some pretty unhappy employees in Loudoun County just because of the pay, and we were losing employees at such a rate it cost us money to retrain people.”

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Obituaries Frederick R. Howard Frederick R. Howard died Sunday, Oct. 25th from complications from pneumonia.

Freddy, as he was commonly known, was a beloved native son, born and resided in Leesburg his entire life; albeit a brief stint while away during his college studies and military service.

Freddy is best known for his almost 30 years of service in the Clerk’s office of the Loudoun County Circuit Court, retiring in 1991, having served as the Chief Clerk for his last 12 years. As Clerk of the Court, Freddy, with a smile and gentleman-like quality, touched the lives of most Loudoun citizens from the time they were born to the time they passed.

Additionally, Freddy represented Loudoun County on the State and National level as an officer and historian of the Virginia Court Clerk’s Association and a member of the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers, respectively.

In addition to his duties as Clerk, he was elected and served on the Leesburg Town Council. While on the Town Council, Freddy and Kenny Rollins (former town mayor and State Representative to the Virginia House of Delegates) met with and obtained approval from the State of Maryland officials to draw water from the Potomac River for the Town’s needs; in hindsight, a creative and wise accomplishment given the Town’s growth, the scarcity of today’s water resources, and increasingly politically charged environment.

Over the years, Freddy had unselfishly donated his time and talents to numerous local organizations. Some of his other associations and activities included: • 58 continuous years as a member of the Leesburg Lions Club, having served as President, and receiving the Lions Club highest honor: the Melvin Jones Medal of Service.

• Civil Celebrant for more than 40 years, performing numerous marriages within Loudoun County, most notable the wedding of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

• 30 years as an officer and director of Leesburg’s Union Cemetery.

• Officer, Director, and Fundraising Chairman of numerous local Loudoun charities, including the American Red Cross, YMCA, March of Dimes, Boy Scouts of America.

• Commander of Leesburg’s American Legion Post 34.

• Officer and Director of the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Trust, providing aid to military veterans.

• Monroe Vo-Tech Center advisory com-

mittee for auto mechanics & auto body repair classes.

• One of the judges selecting Loudoun students for the American Legions Boys & Girls State Competition.

• Elected as a Director of First Virginia Bank in 1980, and served continuously until First Virginia’s merger with BB&T in 2003.

• Chuck Robb’s Gubernatorial Campaign Manager for Loudoun County.

• Served as a Deacon and Elder of the Leesburg Presbyterian Church.

Freddy enjoyed life: joking, pulling off pranks, golfing, fishing, bird hunting, his bi-monthly card group, and routing for the Washington Football Team. He was a Redskin season ticket holder for 33 years, and missed only two home football games during that tenure. He loved his family dearly, and all people, as he never met a stranger.

Freddy was born in a frame house on South King Street in Leesburg on August 22nd, 1929, to the parents of Dr. Herbert & Lillian Howard, DVM. Freddy graduated Leesburg High School in 1946, attended Presbyterian Junior College and the College of William & Mary. He courageously enlisted into the United States Air Force during the Korean War, served 4 years as Airborne Radar Operator in the Air/Sea Rescue Unit, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was married to Ms. Peggy Mae Fleming for 59 years. They had two daughters: Linda Howard Hiserman of Ashburn, VA and Hope McCullough (K.C.) of Mechanicsville, VA. He has 4 grandchildren (Brett, Amy, Megan, and Emma) and 4 great grandchildren (Brayden, Elise, Sadie Mae, and Preston James), as well as two surviving brothers: Frank of Richmond, VA and David of Gaithersburg, MD, and numerous nieces, nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews. Freddy was preceded in death by his wife and his siblings: Jack, Tommy, Margaret and Mary.

To honor the former Clerk of the Circuit Court, the County of Loudoun will lower the flag to half-staff at the Loudoun County Government Center on Harrison Street and the Loudoun Courthouse Complex on King and Market Streets from dawn on Thursday, October 29th, until dusk on Friday, October 30th, 2020.

A memorial service will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, Nov. 7th, Leesburg Community Church 835 Lee Ave., SW Leesburg, VA. Arrangements are being handled by Colonial Funeral Home in Leesburg. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Leesburg Host Lions Club Attn.: John Pumphrey 115 Queen St., NE Leesburg, VA 20176 or the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation 230 East Ohio Street, Suite 500 Chicago, Illinois 60611.

Evelyn Berry Brooks 85, of Upperville, VA

Departed this life on October 24th, 2020.

Evelyn was born to the late John Ester Berry, Sr. and Charlotte Washington Berry. She was preceded in death by her husband and soulmate, Norman K. Brooks, Sr., son, Norman K. Brooks, Jr. and older siblings, Dorothy “Dot”, Charlotte “Tootsie”, Edna “Duke”, John Jr., William “Wash”, Lena “Betty”, James “Pete”, and Robbie “Bobbie”.

Evelyn was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt, godmother, and friend.

She leaves behind to cherish her memory, sister, Ada Alise Cook; children, Maurice Brooks, Sr. (Robyn), Marvin Brooks, Sr.,

Patricia Brooks-Nobles (Haywood), and Danielle Brooks; step-daughter, Delores Grigsby (Earl); daughter-in-law, Candace Brooks; 18 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren and a host of family and friends.

Viewing and visitation (social distancing and masks required) will be held Saturday, October 31, 2020 from 10:00 am until 11:30 am followed by private funeral service at 12:30 pm at The Senior Community Center of Leesburg, 102 North Street, NW, Leesburg, VA 20176. A link to the service will be provided upon request.

Interment at Mount Zion Community Cemetery, Leesburg, VA. Arrangements by LYLES FUNERAL SERVICE, Serving N. Virginia. Eric S. Lyles, Director. Lic. VA/ MD/DC. 800-388-1913.

Bettie M. Robinson 86, of Purcellville, VA

Departed this life on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 19, 2020.

Bettie, a beloved wife, mother, sister, aunt and friend leaves to mourn, two daughters, Celeste R. Peterson of Centreville, VA and Denise Robinson of Herndon, VA; godson, Moses Freedom of Purcellville, VA, brother, Walter Hogan (Jean) of Falls Church, VA, sister, Mattie Lassiter of Purcellville, VA, brother in-law, William Robinson (Emily) of Oxford, NC, cousin, Morris Watkins (Kathy) of Columbus, OH, nieces,

nephews and other family and friends too numerous to name.

Bettie was preceded in death just 9 months ago by her husband of 65 years, Woodrow.

A graveside service will be held Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, 11:00 am at Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lincoln, VA. COVID-19 protocols will be observed.

Interment will be privately held.

Arrangements by LYLES FUNERAL SERVICE, Serving N. Virginia. Eric S. Lyles, Director. Lic. VA/MD/DC. 800-388-1913.

Wayne C. Mills

Wayne Mills, age 81, of Leesburg, VA, passed away peacefully Monday, October 19, 2020, at his home.

He was born, September 20, 1939 in Charlestown, West Virginia. Wayne was the son of the late Paul D. and Virginia M. (Hindman) Mills.

Wayne is survived by his only son, Jeffrey (wife Tina) Mills of Fort Ashby, WV, grandchildren: Joseph Mills of Sterling, VA and Sarah Mills of Sterling VA, step grandchildren: Shayla (husband Matthew) Fazenbaker of Lonaconing, MD and Greg Edens of Hagerstown, MD. Wayne graduated from Harpers Ferry High School in 1957. He then obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from Shepherd College in 1962. Wayne completed his education with his Masters Degree in Administration and Supervision from the University of Virginia in 1968. He began his

teaching career at Moorefield High School and 1 year later joined the educational team of Loudoun County. He served Loudoun County as a principal, opening multiple schools during his career. Wayne spent the next 40 years doing what he loved most as part of the dedicated educational team of Loudoun County. In 1998, Wayne received The Washington Post Distinguished Leadership Award.

Since retirement, Wayne enjoyed woodworking, yard work, spending time with his beloved wife Susan, dear friends, former co-worker’s and his family. He will forever be remembered for his kindness and inspiration in the many lives he’s touched.

A memorial service will be held at a future date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in honor of his late wife to the Loudoun breast Health Network, P.O. Box 6154, Leesburg, VA 20178 or a charity of your choosing. Online condolences may be expressed at www.loudounfuneralchapel.com.

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HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS Scary Spectacle Drive-In Haunted House Thursday, Oct. 29, Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31, 5-7 p.m.

Between the Hills Community Center, 11762 Harpers Ferry Road, Neersville Details: facebook.com/v4larts Visitors can drive in one car at a time (windows rolled up) and be scared! The spectacle features flashing lights, loud noises and strobe effects, and guests may not leave their cars. Suggested donation is $5 per car. The installation also runs Nov. 5-7.

LCAS Trick or Treat Trail Friday, Oct. 30, 3-6 p.m.

Loudoun County Animal Services, 39820 Charles Town Pike, Waterford Details: flcas.org Celebrate a night early with a socially distanced event at the county animal shelter. The event is designed for children ages 5 to 12, but all children are welcome. Costumes are encouraged. The event is free, but donations are accepted.

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Loudoun celebrity chef and The Conche Owner Santosh Tiptur will open the tapas and tacos La Prensa restaurant in Sterling in November.

Chocolate and Tacos?

The Conche’s Santosh Tiptur Opens La Prensa Next Month

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Pandemic or no pandemic, we can all use more tacos.

Loudoun celebrity chef Santosh Tiptur is slated to open his new restaurant La Prensa in Sterling in November. The new spot will focus on internationally inspired tacos, tapas and a killer wine and cocktail program.

Tiptur’s 3-year-old chocolate-themed restaurant The Conche in the Village at Leesburg has developed a regional following and is thriving despite COVID restrictions. And an outpouring of community support has led Tiptur to press forward with plans for the new spot.

“We’re going to do the same thing we do at The Conche but in a different style,” Tiptur said.

Tiptur is a Mexican cuisine aficionado, and plans for La Prensa have been in the works for two years. He signed the lease for the Sterling location near Nokes Bou-

levard last November, with plans to open on May 5 of this year for Cinco de Mayo.

COVID threw a wrench in those plans, and Tiptur briefly considered shelving the project. But a wave of support for The Conche after Virginia moved to its Phase 2 and 3 COVID guidelines encouraged him to keep going.

“After COVID hit, we said maybe we’d better drop the idea for now. But then slowly everything seemed to be going back to normal,” Tiptur said. “It’s the community, the people who like us really support us.

They don’t want us to go out of business.”

La Prensa is Spanish for “the press” (as in a wine press), and a creative wine list will be a focus at the new place, along with tequila-based drinks. The Conche’s stellar bar program and creative cocktails are among its claims to fame, along with an impressive 300-square-foot in-house chocolate lab.

Tiptur launched The Conche in 2017, and it was an immediate hit. The chocolate-themed restaurant became a dessert

mecca, with camps and classes for adults and kids alike. But it also got raves—and staying power—thanks to its savory dinner menu and fabulous brunches.

Tiptur is originally from India and traces his love of chocolate to his first Cadbury Eclair candy bar as a kid. He became a pastry chef and worked for cruise lines for a dozen years before opening the chocolate-themed D.C. hotspot Coco Sala with business partner Nisha Sidhu in 2008.

Coco Sala closed its doors in early 2018.

Tiptur moved to Loudoun with his family more than a decade ago and saw growth potential on his home turf. Since opening The Conche in 2017, it’s become a Mid-Atlantic destination, drawing a devoted DMV clientele, along with fans who travel from as far as Delaware and Pennsylvania. Diners often come for Saturday dinner and stay for Sunday brunch, Tiptur said.

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Friday, Oct. 30, 8 p.m.

Crooked Run Brewing, 22455 Davis Drive #120, Sterling Details: crookedrunbrewing.com Celebrate with a DJ set from NDavis Music, Halloween-themed beer and cocktails and a costume contest at 11 p.m.

Halloween at Henway Saturday, Oct. 31, 11 a.m.

Henway Hard Cider, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont Details: facebook.com/henwayhardcider Bring the kids for socially distanced trick or treating at candy stations around the farm from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with live music, Henway hard cider on tap, Bluemont Vineyard wine and Dirt Farm Brewery beer for the adults. Then it’s time for a costume parade around the pond at 3 p.m.

Axes and O’s Outdoor Trunk or Treat Saturday, Oct. 31, noon-3 p.m.

Axes and O’s, 21680 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling Details: axesandos.com Kiddos can hit the parking lot for a socially distanced trunk or treat with candy distributed via 6-foot pipes.

Admission is free. Advance registration is recommended.

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The Conche is one of three finalists for Destination Business of the Year in this year’s Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce Small Business Awards. The winner will be announced Nov. 13.

For Tiptur, engaging families is a big part of the vibe at the Conche and brings him back to his own childhood fascination with chocolate.

“I always see how I got inspired as a kid. We see a lot of diners when they come with their kids. The kids really love watching what we do in the chocolate lab and see the desserts being plated. As we’re in year four, we’ve noticed that we’ve been able to inspire a lot of kids here,” he said.

“We love that part of it.”

Tiptur traces his fascination with creative international cuisine back to his years in the cruise industry, and it’s a guiding force in planning for La Prensa. Tiptur and his family love Mexican cuisine, and he says Rick Bayless’ contemporary Mexican restaurants in Chicago have long been an inspiration.

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The Conche Owner Santosh Tiptur prepares a dessert in his Village at Leesburg location. Next month, he’ll be busy preparing tapas and tacos at his new La Prensa restaurant in Sterling.

tionally inspired “spin-off ” tacos.

“Mexican cuisine is one of my favorites, but I don’t just want to open another Mexican restaurant. ... I like flavorful food.

Tacos are going to be a vehicle for us to use many of the familiar international dishes,” Tiptur said.

Tiptur and his team are waiting for final inspections and permits and planning a soft opening and then a grand opening

in November.

“It’s something fun, something new and something different,” he added. “You can put anything in tacos and it tastes good.”

Santosh Tiptur’s La Prensa is slated to open in November at 21305 Windmill Parc Dr. in Sterling. Check out the Facebook page for updates at facebook.com/ laprensava. n

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RhinO’ween Saturday, Oct. 31, 2-8 p.m.

Lost Rhino Brewing Company 21730 Red Rum Drive, Ashburn Details: lostrhino.com This family-oriented event features live music from 2 to 5 p.m., socially distanced candy stations and children’s activities. Costumes are encouraged.

Old 690 Trunk or Treat Saturday, Oct. 31, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Old 690 Brewing Company, 15670 Ashbury Church Road, Hillsboro Details: old690.com Celebrate with a socially distanced trunk or treat and costume contest at the brewery.

Purcellville Pub Boo Thru Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.

Purcellville Pub, 745 E. Main St., Purcellville Details: thepurcellvillepub.com Parents can bring kids 12 and under in costumes by the Pub for a drive-thru goody bag pick-up as long as the candy holds out.

Blue Moon Masquerade Tasting Party Saturday, Oct. 31, 7-10 p.m.

Henway Hard Cider, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont Details: facebook.com/henwayhardcider This adults-only Halloween event features outdoor grown-up trick or treating with savory bites paired with tastings of Henway hard cider, Bluemont Vineyard wine, and Dirt Farm Brewery beer. Tickets are $40 and include four pairings.

LOCO LIVE Live Music: Kenny Ray Horton Friday, Oct. 30, 4 p.m.

Vanish Farmwoods Brewery, 42245 Black Hops Lane, Lucketts Details: vanishbeer.com Catch Nashville singer/songwriter Kenny Ray Horton for a fun Friday night at Vanish.

Live Music: Beatlemania Now Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.

Tally Ho Theater, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg Details: tallyhotheater.com This multimedia stage show is a celebration of the ’60s with note for note renditions of Beatles classics. Tickets are $20-$30 for this socially distanced seated show.

Live Music: Cary Wimbish Saturday, Oct. 31, 1-5 p.m.

Bear Chase Brewing Company, 18294 Blue Ridge Mountain Road, Bluemont Details: bearchasebrew.com Richmond-based Wimbish serves up covers of traditional country, bluegrass, classic rock, and blues songs along with crowd-pleasing originals.

Live Music: Sidetracked Saturday, Oct. 31, 1-4 p.m.

Harpers Ferry Brewing, 37412 Adventure Center Lane, Loudoun Heights Details: facebook.com/harpersferrybrewing Celebrate Halloween with guitar-driven rock ‘n’ roll featuring hits and B-sides from the ’60s through the ’90s.

Live Music: The Bone Show Saturday, Oct. 31, 1-5 p.m.

Creek’s Edge Winery, 41255 Annas Lane, Lovettsville Details: creeksedgewinery.com Great tunes from western Loudoun singer/ songwriter and one-man band Chris Bowen of The Bone Show.

Live Music: SixtyFive12 Saturday, Oct. 31, 1-4 p.m.

Vanish Farmwoods Brewery, 42245 Black Hops Lane, Lucketts Details: vanishbeer.com Get the party started with classic and contemporary rock and R&B covers.

B Chord Boograss Dance Party Saturday, Oct. 31, 6 p.m.

B Chord Brewing, 34266 Williams Gap Road, Round Hill Details: bchordbrewing.com Put on your costumes and dance to bluegrass from Caveman TV and the Short Hill Mountain Boys on the lawn. Tickets are $20.

VALFresco: Chasing Autumn Saturday, Oct. 31, 6-9 p.m.

Village at Leesburg, 1602 Village Market Blvd., Leesburg Details: villageatleesburg.com DMV favorites Dan Gallagher and Josh Earls serve up originals and covers.

Live Music: Shane Gamble Saturday, Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m.

Social House Kitchen and Tap, 42841 Creek View Plaza, Ashburn Details: socialhouseashburn.com Rising country music star Shane Gamble has several hit singles under his belt and a new EP on the horizon.

Live Music: Jason Masi Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m.

Social House South Riding, 25370 Eastern Marketplace Plaza, Chantilly Details: socialhousesouthriding.com Masi returns to Social House with his signature acoustic soul and R&B.

Live Music: Jon Fritz Saturday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

Monk’s BBQ, 251 N. 21st St., Purcellville Details: monksq.com Fritz has been entertaining in the DMV since 1996 covering artists from Elvis Presley to Elton John to Duran Duran. Get ready for Halloween fun.

Live Music: Bad Panda Saturday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

Chefscape, 1602 Village Market Blvd. # 115, Leesburg Details: chefscapekitchen.com

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Book a socially distanced table or lounge and rock out for Halloween. Tickets are $20 for a table of four.

Live Music: Melissa Quinn Fox Duo Sunday, Nov. 1, 1 p.m.

MacDowell Brew Kitchen, 202 South St. SE, Leesburg Details: macsbeach.com It’s Sunday funday at MacDowell’s with Fox’s highenergy blend of rock and country.

Live Music: Jamie Gregory Sunday, Nov. 1, 1 p.m.

Breaux Vineyards, 36888 Breaux Vineyards Lane, Hillsboro Details: breauxvineyards.com Spend a mellow afternoon with singer/songwriter

tunes performed with plenty of heart.

LOCO CULTURE ‘Dial M for Monsters’ Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1, 6 p.m.

StageCoach Theatre Company, 20937 Ashburn Road, Suites 115 and 120, Ashburn Details: stagecoachtc.com StageCoach Theatre’s socially distanced performances continue with a new production of “Dial M for Monsters.” Classic movie monsters (the Count, the Mummy and friends) are no longer in demand as Zombies hog the spotlight. How can they strike back?

Tickets are $25 in advance and shows are expected to sell out. Performances also run Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.

The company is also offering live streaming for several upcoming shows. Check the website for details.

Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING The LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room, County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, at 6:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, December 9, 2020 in order to consider:

PROPOSED REPLACEMENT OF WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL PLAQUE LOUDOUN COUNTY COURTHOUSE GROUNDS 18 East Market St, Leesburg, VA Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1812 et seq., the Board of Supervisors shall consider removing and replacing the plaque affixed to the World War One memorial on the Loudoun County Courthouse grounds in order to affix a new plaque containing a single, unsegregated, alphabetical list of all veterans from Loudoun County who died during World War One. The subject property is located at 18 East Market Street, Leesburg VA within the Leesburg Election District.

Documents associated with the above item will be available for review 72 hours in advance of the public hearing and may be examined at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or call (703) 777-0200.

Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).

Unless otherwise noted in the above notices, copies of the above-referenced amendments, applications, ordinances, and/or plans and related documents may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or call 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies, or electronically at www.loudoun.gov/lola. This link also provides an additional opportunity for public input on active applications. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”). In addition, for detailed instructions on how to access documents using LOLA, to request that documents be emailed to you, to receive physical copies of documents, or to arrange a time to view the file at the Loudoun County Government Center, please email DPZ@loudoun.gov or call 703-777-0246 (option 5).

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic this public hearing may be conducted as an electronic meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to view the public hearing electronically; however, the Board Room will be open for any members of the public who wish to attend in person with appropriate physical distancing. Board of Supervisors public hearings are available for live viewing on television on Comcast Government Channel 23, Open Band Channel 40 and Verizon FiOS Channel 40, and are livestreamed at loudoun.gov/webcast. All members of the public who desire to speak will be heard as to their views pertinent to these matters. Citizens are encouraged to call in advance to sign up to speak at the public hearing. Instructions for remote participation will be forwarded to all individuals who sign-up in advance and who would like to provide their comments remotely. For this public hearing, advanced sign-up will be taken after 8:30 a.m. on November 20, 2020, and no later than 12:00 p.m. on December 9, 2020. If you wish to sign-up in advance, call the Office of the County Administrator at (703) 777-0200. Citizens will also have the option to sign-up during the public hearing. Citizens may also submit written comments by email sent to bos@loudoun.gov. Any written comments received prior to the public hearing will be distributed to Board members and made part of the minutes for the public hearing.

Hearing assistance is available for meetings in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation as a result of a physical, sensory or mental disability to participate in this meeting, please contact the Office of the County Administrator at 703-777-0200. At least one business day of advance notice is requested; some accommodations may require more than one day of notice. FM Assistive Listening System is available at the meetings.

BY ORDER OF:

PHYLLIS RANDALL, CHAIR LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 10/29 & 11/05/20

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Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING The LOUDOUN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room on the first floor of the County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday, November 16, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following:

SIDP-2020-0004 HARTLAND SIGN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

244-27-1160

N/A

244-27-0849

N/A

(Sign Development Plan) HEDR Hartland LP of Washington, District of Columbia, and Hartland Community Association of Ashburn, Virginia, have submitted an application for a Sign Development Plan to request alternative sign regulations for permitted signs in order to modify regulations in regard to the total aggregate sign area, maximum number of signs, maximum area of any one sign, maximum area of mounted background structure, illumination permitted, minimum setback from right-of-way, maximum height, sign type permitted, and allowance for double-sided signage. The subject property is being developed by-right in the Transitional Residential-1 Upper Broad Run and Upper Foley (TR-1UBF), Transitional Residential-3 Upper Broad Run and Upper Foley (TR-3UBF), Transitional Residential-2 (TR-2) and Rural Commercial (RC) zoning districts under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance. This application is subject to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance, and pursuant to Section 5-1202(E) alternative sign regulations for permitted signs may be requested with the submission of a Sign Development Plan. The subject property is located partially within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, between the Ldn 60-65 aircraft noise contour, and outside of but within one (1) mile of the Ldn 60 aircraft noise contour. The subject property is approximately 791 acres in size and is located on the west side of Fleetwood Road (Route 616), north of Route 50 in the Blue Ridge Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as follows: PIN

ADDRESS

244-27-2454

N/A

244-27-3072

N/A

244-36-8224

23583 Fleetwood Rd, Aldie, Virginia

244-37-0788

N/A

244-37-3597

N/A

244-37-5249

N/A

244-37-6561

N/A

244-38-2031

N/A

244-38-2661

N/A

244-47-7397

N/A

245-15-3140

N/A

245-15-4099

N/A

245-26-5476

N/A

245-45-9645

N/A

246-45-1654

41226 John Mosby Hwy, Aldie, Virginia

246-45-2778

N/A

285-10-4331

N/A

285-10-8373

23930 Lenah Farm Ln, Aldie Virginia

285-19-9317

N/A

285-29-6818

The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 Comprehensive Plan (Transition Policy Area (Transition Large Lot Neighborhood Place Type and Transition Community Center)), which designate this area for low-density Residential uses with substantial open space with target densities of 1 dwelling unit (du) per acre or 1 du/3 acres and pedestrian-focused Retail Centers with small footprint Retail uses with a recommended floor area ratio (FAR) of up to 0.3.

ZMAP-2020-0005, ZCPA-2020-0008, ZMOD-2020-0020 & ZMOD-2020-0026 GOOSE CREEK OVERLOOK (Zoning Map Amendment, Zoning Concept Plan Amendment &, Zoning Modification) Goose Creek Overlook LLC of Reston, Virginia, and Good Works Development, LP of Middleburg, Virginia, have submitted applications for the following: 1) to rezone approximately 46.06 acres from the R-1 (Single Family Residential) zoning district under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance to the PD-H4 (Planned Development-Housing 4) administered as R-8 (Single Family Residential) and R-16 (Townhouse/Multifamily Residential) zoning district under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance in order to develop a maximum of 136 single family attached residential units and 40 stacked multifamily units, and 75 multifamily affordable housing units; and 2) to amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (“CDP”) for approximately 9.2 acres that are currently subject to ZMAP-2003-0009, Goose Creek Village South, in order to revise open space tabulations and allow for development of a parking area and trail access.

The applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modification(s): ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION

PROPOSED MODIFICATION

§5-1102, Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements, Number of Parking and Loading Spaces Required, Table 5-1102, Parking Spaces Required.

To reduce the parking space requirements for Multi Family Dwelling Units from 2 spaces per dwelling unit for 2- and 3-bedroom units to 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit.

§1-205(A), Interpretation of Ordinance, Limitations and Methods for Measurements of Lots, Yards and Related Terms, Lot Access Requirements.

To permit frontage of single family attached and multifamily units on open space rather than the required frontage on a Class I, Class II, Class III road, or private access easement as specified in the individual district regulations.

The subject property is located partially within the QN (Quarry Notification) Overlay District – Luck Note Area and partially within the Reservoir Protection Area. The subject property is approximately 55.26 acres in size and located south of the Dulles Greenway (Route 267), on the east side of Goose Creek, and on the northern and southern side of Sycolin Road (Route 625), in the Ashburn and Blue Ridge Election Districts. The subject property is more particularly described as follows: PIN

PROPERTY ADDRESS

154-45-5373

20776 Sycolin Road, Ashburn, Virginia

154-45-1833

N/A

154-45-3829

N/A

41038 John Mosby Hwy, Aldie, Virginia

154-45-9680

N/A

285-30-4849

N/A

154-35-8154

N/A

285-39-5280

23620 & 23651 Lenah Farm Ln, Aldie Virginia

153-16-3488 (portion of)

20810 Sycolin Road, Ashburn, Virginia

285-48-7020

N/A

154-45-5980

N/A

244-47-8789

N/A

244-47-7684

N/A

244-47-6587

N/A

244-37-5471

N/A

244-37-4563

N/A

244-37-3853

N/A

244-37-3243

N/A

244-37-2415

N/A

244-37-2503

N/A

244-37-2392

N/A

244-37-2081

N/A

244-27-1670

N/A

The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Neighborhood Place Type)), which support primarily Single-Family Residential uses with limited supportive Retail and Service uses at recommended densities of four dwelling units per acre (du/ ac), up to 6 du/ac for infill development, and FAR of up to 1.0 for Non-Residential uses.

Unless otherwise noted in the above notices, copies of the above-referenced amendments, applications, ordinances, and/or plans and related documents may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or call 703-777-0246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies, or electronically at www.loudoun.gov/lola. This link also provides an additional opportunity for public input on active applications. To arrange a time to view the file at the Loudoun County Government Center, please email dpz@loudoun.gov or call 703-777-0246, or you may view the file electronically at www.loudoun.gov/lola. For detailed instructions on how to access documents using

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LOLA, to request that documents be emailed to you, to receive physical copies of documents, or to arrange a time to view the file at the Loudoun County Government Center, please email DPZ@loudoun.gov or call 703-777-0246 (option 5). Additionally, documents may be viewed and downloaded electronically the week before the hearing at www.loudoun.gov/pc.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, members of the public are encouraged to view the public hearing electronically; however, the Board Room will be open for any members of the public who wish to attend in person with appropriate physical distancing. Planning Commission public hearings are available for viewing on television on Comcast Government Channel 23, Open Band Channel 40, and Verizon FiOS Channel 40, and are livestreamed at loudoun.gov/webcast. All members of the public will be heard as to their views pertinent to these matters. Citizens are encouraged to call in advance to sign up to speak at the public hearing. If you wish to sign up in advance of the hearing, please call the Department of Planning and Zoning at 703-777-0246 prior to 12:00 PM on the day of the public hearing. Speakers may also sign up at the hearing. Written comments are welcomed at any time and may be sent to the Loudoun County Planning Commission, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., 3rd Floor, MSC #62, Leesburg, Virginia 20175, or by e-mail to loudounpc@loudoun.gov. Any individual representing and/or proposing to be the sole speaker on behalf of a citizen’s organization or civic association is encouraged to contact the Department of Planning and Zoning prior to the date of the public hearing if special arrangements for additional speaking time and/or audio-visual equipment will be requested. Such an organization representative will be allotted 6 minutes to

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speak, and the Chairman may grant additional time if the request is made prior to the date of the hearing and the need for additional time is reasonably justified.

Citizens are encouraged to call the Department of Planning and Zoning on the day of the public hearing to confirm that an item is on the agenda, or, the most current agenda may be viewed on the Planning Commission’s website at www.loudoun.gov/pc. In the event that the second Thursday is a holiday or the meeting may not be held due to inclement weather or other conditions that make it hazardous for members to attend, the meeting will be moved to the third Tuesday of the month. In the event that Tuesday is a holiday or the Tuesday meeting may not be held due to inclement weather or other conditions that make it hazardous for members to attend, the meeting will be held on the following Thursday. The meeting will be held at a place determined by the Chairman.

Hearing assistance is available for meetings in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room. FM Assistive Listening System is available at the meetings at all other locations. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation as a result of a physical, sensory or mental disability to participate in this meeting, contact the Department of Planning and Zoning at 703-777-0246. Please provide three days’ notice.

BY ORDER OF:

ERIC COMBS, CHAIRMAN LOUDOUN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION 10/29 & 11/05/20

Loudoun County Public Schools

NOTICE OF TRUSTEES’ SALE 301 East Marshall Street, Middleburg, VA 20117

Fall 2020 Elementary School Attendance Zone Change Process

In execution of a certain Purchase Money Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of Contracts, Leases and Rents dated July 31, 2018 (the “Deed of Trust”), granted by Orion Portfolio Management LLC, a Florida limited liability company, as grantor and borrower, securing the repayment of a loan in the original principal amount of $325,000.00, which Deed of Trust was recorded on August 2, 2018 among the Land Records of Loudoun County, Virginia as Instrument No. 20180802-0045240, and subsequently assigned by virtue of a certain Collateral Assignment of Deed of Trust dated July 6, 2018 and recorded on August 17, 2018 among the Land Records of Loudoun County, Virginia as Instrument No.20180817-0048324, a default having occurred in the payment of the Promissory Note thereby secured and at the request of the holder of said Note, the undersigned Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the entrance of the Circuit Court building for Loudoun County (18 E. Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20178), on

Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School (ES-23) and Hovatter Elementary School (ES-29) are scheduled to open in fall 2021, with the start of the 2021-2022 academic year. Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School is sited within the Arcola Center development at 24200 Pissarro Drive in Sterling. Hovatter Elementary School is co-located on the Lightridge High School site at 41135 Collaboration Drive in Aldie.

November 13, 2020, at 10:00 o’clock AM the Property described in said Deed of Trust, located at the above address and described as: 3,214 Square feet, more or less, as more particularly shown on plat entitled “Boundary Survey, Land of Keith E. & Deborah P. Douglas,” prepared by Ken W. Erikson L.S., dated March 22, 1985 and attached with Deed recorded in Deed Book 868 at Page 1338 and Plat Cab D, Slot 105 at Page 5 among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia,

In establishing attendance zones for the two new schools, the current attendance boundaries for Aldie, Arcola, Buffalo Trail, Cardinal Ridge, Creighton’s Corner, Goshen Post, Hutchison Farm, Legacy, Liberty, Little River, Madison’s Trust, Pinebrook, Rosa Lee Carter, and Sycolin Creek Elementary Schools will be reviewed.

The Loudoun County School Board has scheduled a series of meetings to facilitate the necessary attendance zone changes.

Elementary School Attendance Zone Meetings

Date Wednesday, October 14, 2020

School Board Attendance Zone Overview

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

School Board Attendance Zone Work Session

TERMS OF SALE:

Monday, November 9, 2020

Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing

A deposit of $30,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is less, cash or certified check, will be required at the time of sale. Settlement shall be by cashier’s check or wire transfer of immediately available federal funds and shall occur within thirty (30) days from date of sale, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE. The Trustees reserve the right to extend the date of settlement as may be necessary to complete arrangements for settlement.

The deposit, without interest, shall be applied to the credit of the successful bidder at settlement. If the successful bidder fails to complete settlement the deposit shall be forfeited and the Trustees may resell the subject Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The Trustees reserve the right to cancel the sale, postpone the sale or remove any or all portions of the Property from sale at any time before the sale is announced as final for any reason, to reject any and all bids, waive deposit requirements, extend time for settlement, and announce additional terms of sale. Terms of sale announced at the public auction will supersede all advertised terms of sale. All closing costs, including the preparation of the Trustee’s deed and the grantor’s tax, shall be paid by the successful bidder. In addition, at settlement, the successful bidder shall pay all current and past due assessments, sewer or water charges, and real estate taxes, and any penalties and interest due on any of the foregoing, with respect to the Property. The risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be assumed by the successful bidder from and after the bid strike-down at the time of sale. The Trustees will not deliver possession of the Property to the successful bidder, who shall be solely responsible for obtaining possession of the Property.

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

School Board Attendance Zone Work Session

Tuesday, December 1, 2020*

School Board Review of Elementary School Attendance Zone Recommendations

Monday, December 7, 2020

Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing

Tuesday, December 15, 2020*

School Board Adoption of Elementary School Attendance Zones

Parcel ID No.:

538292993000

Subject to any and all covenants, conditions, restrictions and easements, if any, affecting the aforesaid Property.

The Property and all personal property applicable thereto shall be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS” and subject to any and all (i) senior deeds of trust, judgment liens, tax liens, lis pendens, (ii) outstanding homeowner association assessments, (iii) existing housing and zoning code violations, (iv) filed or unfiled mechanic’s and materialmen’s liens, and/or (v) tenants, leasehold interests and other parties in possession, if any.

Neither the Trustees nor the holder of the Note, nor their respective agents, successors, and assigns, make any representations or warranties with respect to the Property including, without limitation, representations or warranties as to the structural integrity, physical condition, construction, workmanship, materials, habitability, fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability of all or any part of the Property. The purchaser recognizes and agrees that any investigation, examination, or inspection of the Property being sold is within the control of the owner or other parties in possession and their agents and not within the control of the Trustees, the holder of the Note, or their respective successors or assigns.

Immediately upon the conveyance by the Trustees of the Property to the purchaser at foreclosure, all duties, liabilities and obligations of the Trustees, if any, with respect to such Property shall be extinguished. Should Settlement not occur for any reason on the part of the Trustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.

Trustees: W. Martin Williams, Esq., 201 North Washington Highway, Suite 203, Ashland, Virginia 23005 (Tel: 804-362-4501, Email: wmwilliams@offitkurman.com); Alfredo Acin, Esq., 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400 Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182 (Tel: 703-745-1827, Email: aacin@offitkurman.com).

INTERESTED BIDDERS are encouraged to contact Trustees for additional information and materials concerning the Property; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, all such information and materials will be provided without any representations or warranties whatsoever.

4837-1519-9694, v. 1 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, & 11/05/20

*Regular School Board Business Meeting All attendance zone meetings will be held at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building (21000 Education Court, Ashburn) and begin at 6:30 p.m.

The meetings will be broadcast live on Comcast Channel 18 and Verizon Fios Channel 43, as well as viewable via simultaneous webcast on the Loudoun County Public Schools website (www.lcps.org).

In-person comment will be accepted at the identified public hearings. Speakers may sign up in advance by contacting the Superintendent’s Office at 571-252-1020 or sending an email to public.comment@lcps.org, in which case the sender will receive a reply with a link to complete an online Citizen Participation/Public Comment registration form. All speakers must sign-up prior to 5:00 p.m. the day of the School Board attendance zone public hearing.

Those who need translation/interpretation assistance or a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability in order to participate meaningfully in School Board meetings or public hearings should contact the Superintendent’s Office at 571-252-1020 at least three (3) days prior to the meeting.

Beverly I. Tate, Director Loudoun County Public Schools Department of Support Services Division of Planning Services 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, Virginia 20148 Telephone: 571-252-1050 Email: lcpsplan@lcps.org

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Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING The LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room, County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, at 6:00 p.m. on THURSDAY, November 12, 2020 in order to consider:

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS’ REQUESTS FOR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION BY DESIGNATION

NEW BLUEMONT

Pursuant to Virginia Code §§15.2-1427 and 58.1-3651, the Board of Supervisors gives notice of its intention to propose for passage an Ordinance designating certain personal property owned by the following nonprofit organization as exempt from local personal property taxes:

CAN’T SHAKE ME, INC.

The 2020 assessed value of the tangible personal property owned by Can’t Shake Me, Inc., for which an exemption is requested is $600.00, resulting in an actual total 2019 tax levy assessed against such property of $25.20.

A complete copy of the full text of the above-referenced proposed Ordinance, as well a copy of the above organization’s application and supporting documentation, is on file and available for review and may be examined at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or call (703) 777-0200.

Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).

PROPOSED CONVEYANCE OF COUNTY PROPERTY GRANT OF EASEMENT TO LOUDOUN WATER 20272 Savin Hill Drive Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1800 et seq., the Board of Supervisors shall consider granting a 15-foot wide waterline easement and 30-foot wide temporary construction easement to Loudoun Water through and across a portion of County property known as the Ashburn Sheriff’s Office substation for the purpose of installing, constructing, operating, maintaining, adding to or altering and replacing present or future sewer mains, manholes, and other appurtenant facilities. The subject property is approximately 13.33 acres in size, and is located on the north side of Russell Branch Parkway (Route 1061) and east of Loudoun County Parkway (Route 607) at the intersection of Russell Branch Parkway (Route 1061) and Savin Hill Drive at 20272 Savin Hill Drive, Ashburn, VA, in the Broad Run Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN: 057-18-3144.

Copies of the plat(s) showing the location(s) of the above-listed conveyance(s) and associated documents are available for review and may be examined at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or call (703) 777-0200. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).

INTERIM ADDITIONS TO AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICTS Applications have been received by the Loudoun County Department of Planning and Zoning and referred to the Agricultural District Advisory Committee (ADAC) and the Planning Commission pursuant to Chapter 43, Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia to amend the ordinances for the following Agricultural and Forestal Districts to add the following parcels PIN

Tax Map Number

Acres Enrolled

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

261-28-4870

/19//22////A2/

10.00

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

264-45-29880

/28///8/////6/

1.68

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

268-49-0956

/38////////82C

10.00

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

302-35-9580

/28///1/////1A

11.34

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

343-35-1601

/37///6/////4A

10

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

409-28-2043

/16//19/////1/

10.01

NEW MOUNT GILEAD

425-17-8473

/57////////51D

49.05

NEW LOVETTSVILLE

439-36-9594

//8/////////1/

3.07

NEW MOUNTVILLE

465-15-4047

/74///1/////2/

10.00

NEW FEATHERBED

466-19-6389

/88/////////7A

15.30

NEW BLUEMONT

525-45-7516

/44//17/////5/

24.67

NEW BLUEMONT

556-10-6861

/44//17/////2/

33.71

NEW BLUEMONT

556-30-0868

/35////////87/

23.85

NEW BLUEMONT

557-30-6646

/44//17/////6/

39.77

NEW BLUEMONT

557-47-7025

/43////////59/

72.52

District

558-15-7565

/43///9/////1/

14.24

NEW BLUEMONT

558-26-5503

/43////////55A

5.66

NEW BLUEMONT

585-10-5180

/43////////65/

128.50

NEW BLUEMONT

585-29-8433

/43/////////2/

4.34

NEW BLUEMONT

586-29-8968

/43/A/1/////7/

8.32

NEW BLUEMONT

611-10-3799

/42//49/////3/

23.48

NEW BLUEMONT

611-19-3378

/42//49/////1/

20.00

NEW BLUEMONT

612-39-4260

/42////////74A

40.00 20.06

NEW BLUEMONT

612-49-4815

/42//49/////2/

MIDDLEBURG WEST

623-25-8238

/85///1/////4/

10

NEW UPPERVILLE

665-29-0318

/53///3////10/

10.02

NEW BLUEMONT

586-48-3323

/43////////13/

20

NEW CATOCTIN SOUTH

302-35-9908

/28//26/////2A

7.92

NEW BLUEMONT

525-25-4868

/44//17/////7/

38.78

Any owner of additional qualifying land may join the applications with consent of the Board of Supervisors, at any time before the public hearing that the Board of Supervisors must hold on the applications.

Additional qualifying lands may be added to an already created District at any time upon separate application pursuant to Chapter 43, Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia.

Any owner who joined in the application may withdraw their land, in whole or in part, by written notice filed with the Board of Supervisors, at any time before the Board of Supervisors acts pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-4309.

The conditions and periods of the foregoing Agricultural and Forestal Districts to which parcels are being considered for addition are as follows: District

Period

Subdivision Minimum Lot Size

New Catoctin South

4 Years

20 Acres

Period Start Date June 2, 2020

New Mount Gilead

10 Years

20 Acres

December 7, 2011

New Lovettsville

4 Years

20 Acres

January 3, 2017

New Bluemont

4 Years

20 Acres

June 2, 2020

New Mountville

4 Years

50 Acres

January 3, 2017

New Featherbed

4 Years

40 Acres

November 4, 2018

Middleburg West

4 Years

50 Acres

July 18, 2019

New Upperville

4 Years

40 Acres

December 7, 2017

Each of these Districts will be reviewed prior to its expiration date pursuant to Chapter 1226 of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County.

Received applications were referred to the ADAC for review and recommendation. The ADAC held a public meeting on August 24, 2020, to consider the applications. The report and recommendations of the ADAC were considered by the Planning Commission at its public hearing on September 22, 2020. The reports and recommendations of the ADAC and the Planning Commission will be considered by the Board of Supervisors at its public hearing.

In accordance with Section 15.2-4307 of the Code of Virginia, the application(s) may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by calling 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies or electronically at: https://www.loudoun.gov/adac (8-24-2020 ADAC Meeting under Agendas and Bylaws). Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for Public Hearings Packet).

ZMAP-2019-0009, ZCPA-2019-0015, SPMI-2019-0022, ZMOD-2019-0024, ZMOD-2019-0058, ZMOD-2019-0059 & ZMOD-2019-0060 ARNOLD PROPERTY (Zoning Map Amendment, Zoning Concept Plan Amendment, Minor Special Exception & Zoning Modification)

South Riding Union LLC of Sterling, Virginia, and South Riding Proprietary of South Riding, Virginia, have submitted applications for the following: 1) To rezone approximately 0.97 acres from the R-1 (Single

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Legal Notices Family Residential) zoning district under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance to the PD-H4 (Planned Development – Housing), administered as R-8 (Single Family Residential), under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance in order to permit the development of four single family detached dwelling units at a maximum density of approximately 4.12 dwelling units per acre; and 2) To amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (“CDP”) approved with ZMAP-2004-0004, Estates at Elk Run in order to incorporate the 0.97-acre site into the existing development and modify the location of 0.23 acres of common open space with no resulting change in density. These applications are subject to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance. The modification of the Landscaping, Buffer Yards, Screening, and Landscape Plans applicable to the proposed use is authorized by Minor Special Exception under Section 5-1409, Waivers and Modifications, pursuant to which the Applicant requests the following modification: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION Table 5-1403(B), Road Corridor Buffer and Setbacks, Road Corridor Buffer and Setbacks Matrix, Other Major Collector Roads.

PROPOSED MODIFICATION Reduce the minimum building setback along Braddock Road (Route 620) from 75 feet to 50 feet.

The Applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modification(s):

Section 7-803(C)(4), pursuant to which the Applicant requests the following modifications: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION §7-803(C)(1)(a), R-8 Single Family Residential District, Lot and Building Requirements, Yards, Single family detached, suburban and traditional, Front.

PROPOSED MODIFICATION When a sidewalk and landscape strip totaling 8 feet is provided in front of a lot then reduce the front yard setback requirement from 15 feet to 12 feet.

Modify the 8-foot side yard for end units as follows:

§7-803(C)(2)(b), Single Family Residential District, Lot and Building Requirements, Yards, Single family attached units, Side. §7-803(C)(2)(c), Single Family Residential District, Lot and Building Requirements, Yards, Single family attached units, Rear.

•

Eliminate for attached garages

•

Reduce to 6 feet between separate garages; and

•

Reduce to 5 feet when adjacent to open space.

Eliminate 15-foot rear yards along partially common walls and reduce to 5 feet along open space.

The Applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modifications: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION

PROPOSED MODIFICATION

§1-205(A) Interpretation of Ordinance; Limitations and Methods for Measurements of Lots, Yards and Related Terms; Lot Access Requirements. §3-511(A) R-8 Single Family Residential, Development Setback and Access from Major Roads, Private Streets.

Allow access to detached single- family residential lots from (Category C2) private streets.

ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION §1-205(A)(1) Interpretation of Ordinance, Limitations and Methods for Measurement of Lots, Yards and Related Terms, Lot Access Requirements.

§1-205(A) Interpretation of Ordinance, Limitations and Methods for Measurement of Lots, Yards and Related Terms, Lot Access Requirements.

§4-110(B) Planned Development – Housing, Site Planning – Internal Relationships. §3-502 R-8 Single Family Residential, Size and Location.

Permit a zoning district size less than two acres.

§3-506(B) R-8 Single Family Residential, Lot Requirements, Width.

Reduce minimum lot width from 50 feet to 15 feet.

§3-506(C)(1) (a) & (c) R-8 Single Family Residential, Lot Requirements, Yards, Single Family Detached Dwellings and Manufactures Housing, Front & Rear.

Reduce minimum front and rear yards from 25 feet to 15 feet.

§3-509(A) R-8 Single Family Residential, Additional Development Standards, Active Recreation Space

Reduce the amount of active recreation space from 5,000 SF to 759 SF.

§4-111(A) Planned Development – Housing, Open Space, Open Space.

Eliminate requirement to provide open space.

The subject Property is located within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, outside of but within one (1) mile of the Ldn 60, aircraft noise contour. The subject property is approximately 1.20 acres in size, including a 0.23-acre portion of a larger parcel, and is located on the north side of Braddock Road (Route 620) and south side of Kimberley Rose Drive (Route 2872) at its intersection with Daniel Shane Drive (Route 2873) at 42930 Braddock Road, Chantilly, Virginia, in the Dulles Election District.

The property is more particularly described as PINs: 167-40-4968 and 167-40-1451(portion). The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Neighborhood Place Type)) which designate this area for master planned neighborhoods of predominantly residential uses arranged on medium-to-large lots at a density of up to four dwelling units per acre (up to six dwelling units per acre for infill development).

§3-511(A) R-8 Single Family Residential, Development Setback and Access from Major Roads, Private Streets.

Permit access to Braddock Road, a major collector road, without an existing or planned median break.

Permit private roads to serve single family residences

Table 5-1102 Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements, Number of Parking and Loading Spaces Required, Residential, Single Family Attached Dwelling Unit.

Eliminate requirement for 0.5 parking spaces per single family detached residence to be provided off lot.

§5-1303(B)(4) Tree Planting and Replacement, Canopy Requirements, For development requiring a plan of subdivision, but not a site plan, property not zoned A-3, A-10, AR-1, AR-2, i.e. single family and duplex dwellings.

Eliminate requirement to provide trees along both sides of all areas dedicated for use for vehicular access.

For all quadruplex lots: •

§5-200(B)(5) Permitted Structures in Required Yards and Setbacks. In any yard or setback, except the front yard or setback.

Reduce the distance a nonhabitable, one-story structure (garage) can be from street rights-of-way or private easements at the front of a regular lot from 60 feet to 18 feet; and

•

Reduce the distance a nonhabitable, one-story structure (garage) can be from street rights-of-way or private easements at the side of a regular lot from 25 feet to 8 feet for corner lots and to 5 feet for lots adjacent to open space.

§7-803(B)(2) R-8 Single Family Residential District, Lot and Building Requirements, Lot width, Single family attached duplex, triplex, or quadruplex units.

Reduce the minimum lot width requirement for SFA quadruplex end units from 24 feet to 20 feet.

ZMAP-2019-0019, SBEX-2020-0001, SBEX-2020-0002, SPEX-2020-0019, ZMOD-2020-0005, ZMOD-2020-0006, ZMOD-2020-0007, ZMOD-2020-0017, ZMOD-2020-0018 & ZMOD-2020-0019 HOGAN KENT GREENE (Zoning Map Amendment, Special Exception, Zoning Modification)

Loudoun South LLC of Bristow, Virginia, has submitted applications for the following: 1) to rezone approximately 37.63 acres from the TR-1LF (Transition Residential – 1 Lower Foley) and the TR-3LF (Transition Residential – 3 Lower Foley) zoning district under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance to the R-8 ADU (Single Family Residential with Affordable Dwelling Units) zoning district, under the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance in order to permit the development of up to 144 single family dwelling units at a density of 3.83 dwelling units per acre; and 2) a subdivision exception under Section 1243.13, Exception Procedures, of the Land Subdivision and Development Ordinance (LSDO) to request exceptions to Facilities Standards Manual (FSM) Section 4.200(A)(2)(a) and LSDO Section 1245.05(1)(c) which require the streets within and contiguous to any development shall be designed and constructed so as to ensure coordination with other existing or planned streets within the general area as to width, grade, location, and drainage. The subdivision exceptions would permit development of the site without connection to Gathering Glen Street, an existing public roadway that is contiguous to the proposed development. These applications are subject to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance. The modification of the minimum yard requirements applicable to affordable dwelling unit developments is authorized by Special Exception under

PROPOSED MODIFICATION

The subject Property is located partially within the FOD (Floodplain Overlay District), minor floodplain.

The subject property is approximately 37.63 acres in size, including a 9.44-acre portion of a 12.44-acre

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ADDRESS

206-26-3209

41947 Braddock Road, Aldie, Virginia

207-46-1171 (portion)

41999 Braddock Road, Aldie, Virginia

206-16-1540

N/A

The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Transition Policy Area (Transition Compact Neighborhood Place Type)) which designate this area for a variety of single family detached, duplex, triplex and accessory dwelling unit homes arranged around a focal point such as civic use, park, green or small commercial center at a density of three to five dwelling units per acre.

CPAM 2020-0001 PUBLIC FACILITIES IN THE RURAL POLICY AREA (Comprehensive Plan Amendment)

Pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 15.2-2225 and 15.2-2229, and a motion adopted by the Board of Supervisors on June 16, 2020, the Board of Supervisors hereby gives notice of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to amend the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (2019 GP) to add text and policies relating to the extension of central water and wastewater to serve public facilities located on contiguous parcels within the RPA (Rural Policy Area) and immediately adjacent to the western boundary of the TPA (Transition Policy Area). The amendment will also revise the 2019 GP Existing Facilities Map to identify a potential future public middle school site as a feature shown on a property located along the eastern edge of the RPA where it adjoins the TPA. The potential future public middle school site is approximately 172.9 acres in size and is located on the west side of Evergreen Mills Road (Route 621), on the south side of Red Hill Road (Route 617), and southwest of Ryan Road (Route 772). This site is more particularly identified as PIN: 242-18-1260 and PIN: 242-28-8988. The amendment proposes revisions to Chapters 6 and 7 of the 2019 GP and the Existing Facilities Map, and such other Chapters, policies, and provisions of the 2019 GP as necessary to implement and maintain consistency with the foregoing amendments or as otherwise necessary to correct typographical errors, section and subsection numbering, and formatting within, update cross-references to, and further clarify the policies of, the above-mention section of the 2019 GP. The proposed CPAM would apply within the Rural Policy Area. The proposed text amendments under consideration include, without limitation, the following: Amendments to Chapter 6 - Fiscal Management & Public Infrastructure: 

Establish new and/or revise certain existing policy language in regard to the extension of central water and wastewater to serve public facilities located on contiguous parcels within the RPA and immediately adjacent to the western boundary of the TPA.



Revise certain existing policy language in regard to the definition of utility system service areas.

Amendments to Chapter 6 - Fiscal Management & Public Infrastructure, Loudoun County Existing Facilities Map (Map Number 2018-147): 

Revise the existing map in regard to the identification of a future middle school as a feature shown on a property located along the eastern edge of the RPA where it adjoins the TPA.

Amendments to Chapter 7 - Implementation, Implementation Matrix, Chapter 6, Fiscal Management & Public Infrastructure: 

Establish new and/or revise certain existing policy language in regard to the extension of central water and wastewater to serve public facilities located on contiguous parcels within the RPA and immediately adjacent to the western boundary of the TPA.



Revise certain existing policy language in regard to the definition of utility system service areas.

Unless otherwise noted in the above notices, copies of the above-referenced amendments, applications, ordinances, and/or plans and related documents may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or call 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies, or electronically at www.loudoun.gov/lola. This link also provides an additional opportunity for public input on active applications. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”). In addition, for detailed instructions on how to access documents using LOLA, to request that documents be emailed to you, to receive physical copies of documents, or to arrange a time to view the file at the Loudoun County Government Center, please email DPZ@loudoun.gov or call 703-777-0246 (option 5).

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic this public hearing may be conducted as an electronic meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to view the public hearing electronically; however, the Board Room will be open for any members of the public who wish to attend in person with appropriate physical distancing. Board of Supervisors public hearings are available for live viewing on television on Comcast Government Channel 23, Open Band Channel 40 and Verizon FiOS Channel 40, and are livestreamed at loudoun.gov/webcast. All members of the public who desire to speak will be heard as to their views pertinent to these matters. Citizens are encouraged to call in advance to sign up to speak at the public hearing. Instructions for remote participation will be forwarded to all individuals who sign-up in advance and who would like to provide their comments remotely.

For this public hearing, advanced sign-up will be taken after 8:30 a.m. on October 30, 2020, and no later than 12:00 p.m. on November 12, 2020. If you wish to sign-up in advance, call the Office of the County Administrator at (703) 777-0200. Citizens will also have the option to sign-up during the public hearing. Citizens may also submit written comments by email sent to bos@loudoun.gov. Any written comments received prior to the public hearing will be distributed to Board members and made part of the minutes for the public hearing.

Hearing assistance is available for meetings in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation as a result of a physical, sensory or mental disability to participate in this meeting, please contact the Office of the County Administrator at 703-777-0200. At least one business day of advance notice is requested; some accommodations may require more than one day of notice. FM Assistive Listening System is available at the meetings.

BY ORDER OF:

PHYLLIS RANDALL, CHAIR LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF NOVEMBER GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION November 3, 2020 A General and Special Election to elect President and Vice President, member of the United States Senate, member of the 10th District House of Representatives, Leesburg Mayor, members of the Leesburg Town Council, Hillsboro Mayor, members of the Hillsboro Town Council, member of the Round Hill Town Council and vote on two Virginia Constitutional questions as well as four Loudoun County bond questions will be held throughout Loudoun County on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 The polls – which are listed below – will open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. Officers of Election will take the name of any qualified voter who is in line at the polling place by 7:00 p.m. and all such voters will be permitted to vote.

107 Little River, Little River Elementary School, 43464 Hyland Hills St., South Riding 108 Mercer, Mercer Middle School, 42149 Greenstone Dr., Aldie 112 Freedom, Freedom High School, 25450 Riding Center Dr., South Riding 114 Dulles South, Dulles South Recreation & Community Center, 24950 Riding Center Dr., South Riding 117 Carter, Rosa Lee Carter Elementary School, 43330 Loudoun Reserve Dr., Ashburn *118 Moorefield, Briar Woods High School, 22525 Belmont Ridge Rd., Ashburn (Auxiliary Gym) 119 Arcola, Arcola Elementary School, 41740 Tall Cedars Pkwy., Aldie 120 Lunsford, J. Michael Lunsford Middle School, 26020 Ticonderoga Rd., Chantilly 121 Town Hall, South Riding Town Hall, 43055 Center St., South Riding 122 Hutchison Farm, Hutchison Farm Elementary School, 42819 Center St., South Riding 123 Cardinal Ridge, Cardinal Ridge Elementary School, 26155 Bull Run Post Office Rd., Centreville 124 Liberty, Liberty Elementary School, 25491 Riding Center Dr., South Riding 125 Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge High School, 43460 Loudoun Reserve Dr., Ashburn 126 Goshen Post, Goshen Post Elementary School, 24945 Lobo Drive, Aldie 207 River Bend, River Bend Middle School, 46240 Algonkian Pkwy., Sterling 208 Algonkian, Algonkian Elementary School, 20196 Carter Ct., Sterling 209 Potomac Falls, Potomac Falls High School, 46400 Algonkian Pkwy, Sterling 210 Cascades, Potowmack Elementary School, 46465 Esterbrook Cir., Sterling 213 Countryside, Countryside Elementary School, 20624 Countryside Blvd., Sterling 214 Sugarland North, Horizon Elementary School, 46665 Broadmore Dr., Sterling 215 Sugarland South, Meadowland Elementary School, 729 Sugarland Run Dr., Sterling 216 Lowes Island, Lowes Island Elementary School, 20755 Whitewater Dr., Sterling 217 South Bank, Potomac Baptist Church, 20747 Lowes Island Blvd., Sterling 218 University Center, GWU Exploration Hall, 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn 219 Galilee Church, Galilee Methodist Church, 45425 Winding Rd., Sterling 301 Purcellville, Emerick Elementary School, 440 S. Nursery Ave., Purcellville 302 Round Hill, Round Hill Center, 20 High St., Round Hill 303 Hillsboro, Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro 305 Philomont, Philomont Fire House, 36560 Jeb Stuart Rd., Philomont 307 Middleburg, Middleburg Town Office, 10 W. Marshall St., Middleburg 308 St. Louis, Banneker Elementary School, 35231 Snake Hill Rd., St. Louis 309 Aldie, Aldie United Methodist Church, 39325, John Mosby Hwy., Aldie 310 Mountain View, Mountain View Elementary School, 36803 Allder School Rd., Purcellville 311 Round Hill Elementary, Round Hill Elementary School, 17115 Evening Star Dr., Round Hill 312 Briar Woods, Briar Woods High School, 22525 Belmont Ridge Rd., Ashburn 313 Pinebrook, Pinebrook Elementary School, 25480 Mindful Ct., Aldie 314 Legacy, Legacy Elementary School, 22995 Minerva Dr., Ashburn 315 Firehouse, Philomont Fire House, 36560 Jeb Stuart Rd., Philomont 316 Creighton’s Corner, Creighton’s Corner Elementary School, 23171 Minerva Dr., Ashburn 318 Madison’s Trust, Madison’s Trust Elementary School, 42380 Creighton Road, Ashburn 319 John Champe, John Champe High School, 41535 Sacred Mountain St, Aldie 320 Stone Hill, Stone Hill Middle School, 23415 Evergreen Ridge Drive, Ashburn 321 Brambleton Middle, Brambleton Middle School, 23070 Learning Circle, Ashburn 322 Buffalo Trail, Buffalo Trail Elementary School, 42190 Seven Hills Drive, Aldie 401 West Lovettsville, Lovettsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue, 12837 Berlin Turnpike, Lovettsville 402 Waterford, Waterford Elementary School, 15513 Loyalty Rd., Waterford 403 Lucketts, Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Rd., Lucketts 407 Harper Park, Harper Park Middle School, 701 Potomac Station Dr. NE, Leesburg 408 Evergreen, Evergreen Mill Elementary School, 491 Evergreen Mill Rd. SE, Leesburg 409 Clarkes Gap, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 605 W. Market St., Leesburg 411 East Lovettsville, Lovettsville Elementary School, 49 S. Loudoun St., Lovettsville 413 Tuscarora, Tuscarora High School, 801 N. King St., Leesburg 414 Red Rock, Red Rock Community Center, 43131 Lake Ridge Pl., Leesburg 416 Hamilton, Hamilton Baptist Church, 16 E. Colonial Hwy., Hamilton 420 River Creek, Harper Park Middle School, 701 Potomac Station Dr. NE, Leesburg 421 Between the Hills, Between the Hills Community Center, 11762 Harpers Ferry Rd., Purcellville 422 Sycolin Creek, Sycolin Creek Elementary School, 21100 Evergreen Mills Rd., Leesburg 501 West Leesburg, Ida Lee Recreation Center, 60 Ida Lee Dr. NW, Leesburg 502 East Leesburg, Frances Hazel Reid Elementary School, 800 N. King St., Leesburg 503 Dry Mill, Loudoun County High School, 415 Dry Mill Rd. SW, Leesburg 504 Smarts Mill, Smarts Mill Middle School, 850 N. King St., Leesburg 505 Cool Spring, Cool Spring Elementary School, 501 Tavistock Dr. SE, Leesburg 506 Brandon Park, Douglass Community Center, 405 E. Market St., Leesburg 507 Greenway, J.L. Simpson Middle School, 490 Evergreen Mill Rd. SE, Leesburg

508 Balls Bluff, Balls Bluff Elementary School, 821 Battlefield Pkwy. NE, Leesburg 509 Tolbert, John W. Tolbert Jr. Elementary School, 691 Potomac Station Dr. NE, Leesburg 510 Heritage, Heritage High School, 520 Evergreen Mill Rd. SE, Leesburg 615 Hillside, Hillside Elementary School, 43000 Ellzey Dr., Ashburn 616 Eagle Ridge, Eagle Ridge Middle School, 42901 Waxpool Rd., Ashburn 617 Oak Grove, Oak Grove Baptist Church, 22870 Dominion Ln., Sterling 619 Ridgetop, Loudoun County Office Building, 21641 Ridgetop Cir., Sterling 620 Russell Branch, Ashburn Elementary School, 44062 Fincastle Dr., Ashburn 621 Dominion Trail, Dominion Trail Elementary School, 44045 Bruceton Mills Circle, Ashburn 622 Farmwell Station, Farmwell Station Middle School, 44281 Gloucester Pkwy., Ashburn 623 Weller, Steuart W. Weller Elementary School, 20700 Marblehead Dr., Ashburn 625 Mill Run, Mill Run Elementary School, 42940 Ridgeway Dr., Ashburn 626 Ashby Ponds, Farmwell Hall, 44755 Audobon Sq., Ashburn 627 Ashbrook, Ashburn Elementary, 44062 Fincastle Dr, Ashburn, VA 20147 628 Moorefield Station, Moorefield Station Elementary School, 22325 Mooreview Pkwy., Ashburn 629 Discovery, Discovery Elementary School, 44020 Grace Bridge Dr., Ashburn 701 Sully, Sully Elementary School, 300 Circle Dr., Sterling 702 Park View, Park View High School, 400 W. Laurel Ave., Sterling 703 Rolling Ridge, Rolling Ridge Elementary School, 500 E. Frederick Dr., Sterling 705 Forest Grove, Forest Grove Elementary School, 46245 Forest Ridge Dr, Sterling 707 Claude Moore Park, Claude Moore Recreation Center, 46105 Loudoun Park Lane Sterling 708 Seneca, Seneca Ridge Middle School, 98 Seneca Ridge Dr., Sterling 709 Mirror Ridge, Sugarland Elementary School, 65 Sugarland Run Dr., Sterling 710 Sterling, Sterling Middle School, 201 West Holly Ave., Sterling 808 Stone Bridge, Stone Bridge High School, 43100 Hay Rd., Ashburn 810 Cedar Lane, Cedar Lane Elementary School, 43700 Tolamac Dr., Ashburn 813 Seldens Landing, Seldens Landing Elementary School, 43345 Coton Commons Dr., Leesburg 814 Newton-Lee, Newton-Lee Elementary School, 43335 Gloucester Pkwy., Ashburn 815 Belmont Ridge, Belmont Ridge Middle School, 19045 Upper Belmont Pl., Leesburg 817 Sanders Corner, Sanders Corner Elementary School, 43100 Ashburn Farm Pkwy., Ashburn 818 Broad Run, Broad Run High School, 21670 Ashburn Rd., Ashburn *819 Heritage Baptist Church, Broad Run High School, 21670 Ashburn Rd., Ashburn (Main Gym) 820 Belmont Station, Belmont Station Elementary School, 20235 Nightwatch St., Ashburn 822 Riverside, Riverside High School, 19019 Upper Belmont Pl., Leesburg *Denotes a change in voting location for this election only.

The last day for in-person absentee voting is Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

The Leesburg Early-Voting site, located at 750 Miller Dr. SE., Suite F, Leesburg 20175 (near the Leesburg Airport), will be open 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, October 26 to October 30; Saturday, October 31, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Sterling Early-Voting site, located at the Loudoun County Government Office at Ridgetop, 21641Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, 20166 will be open October 26 to October 30, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 31, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Dulles Early-Voting site, located at the Dulles South Senior Center, 24950 Riding Center Dr., South Riding, 20152 will be open October 26 to October 30, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 31, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Western Loudoun Early-Voting site, located at Carver Senior Center, 200 E. Willie Palmer Way, Purcellville, 20132 will be open Saturday, October 31, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

All absentee ballots received by mail can be hand delivered to the Office of Elections or any Loudoun County polling place no later than 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Election Day, to be counted.

All absentee ballots returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day (November 3, 2020) AND be received by noon on the third day following the election (November 6, 2020).

PLEASE NOTE: Strict social distancing measures will be in place on Election Day. All voters are reminded to remain 6 feet apart while waiting in line and voters are encouraged to wear a mask/face covering.

Inquiries concerning the election and questions regarding registration status may be directed to the Loudoun County Office of Elections, 703-777-0380, located at 750 Miller Dr. SE. Suite C, Leesburg 20175. Please visit www.loudoun.gov/NovemberElection for additional information.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

A message to Loudoun County Property Owners regarding the Land Use Assessment Program from Robert S. Wertz, Jr. Commissioner of the Revenue The Land Use Assessment Program provides for the deferral of real estate taxes on property that meets certain agricultural, horticultural, forestry, or open space use criteria.

Real property owners who wish to apply for land use assessment for the first time must submit to my office an application along with the required fee by the filing deadline. Forms are available online, in my office, or can be mailed to you.

Owners of real property currently enrolled in the land use assessment program must renew their land use status every 6th year by submitting a renewal form along with documentation corroborating the qualifying land use along with the required fee by the filing deadline. Renewal forms will be mailed the first week of September to those currently enrolled who are up for renewal. You may check your renewal year online at www. loudoun.gov/parceldatabase by entering the property’s address or parcel identification number and selecting the LAND USE STATUS tab. Properties renewed in 2015 are up for renewal this year.

An additional deferral of taxes is available to current program participants if they sign and record an agreement to keep the property in its qualifying use for more than 5 but not exceeding 20 years.

The commitment must be filed with my office by November 2, 2020 and recorded in the Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court´s office by December 17, 2020.

Please visit our website or contact my office for information or filing assistance.

Notice of Public Hearing

DEADLINES First-time Land Use applications and Renewal applications must be submitted to the Commissioner of the Revenue by Friday, November 2, 2020. Applications submitted after the deadline; November 3, 2020 through December 7, 2020, are subject to a $300 per parcel late filing fee in addition to with the standard filing fee. No firsttime applications or renewal applications will be accepted after the December 5th deadline.

For submissions received or postmarked by November 2, 2020 -$125 plus $1 per acre or portion thereof For submissions received or postmarked between November 3, 2020 and December 7, 2020 - $125 plus $1 per acre or portion thereof plus a $300 per parcel late filing fee Online: www.loudoun.gov/landuse Hours: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, M - F Phone: 703-737-8557 Email: trcor@loudoun. gov Mailing Address PO Box 8000 MSC 32 Leesburg VA 20177-9804

The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine Wholesale license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices.

Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

10/22/20 & 10/29/20

The Lovettsville Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the following item at their meeting at 7:30 pm on November 4, 2020. Pursuant to and in compliance with Town of Lovettsville Ordinance 2020-03-0006 (adopted by the Lovettsville Town Council on March 26, 2020) this meeting will be held electronically. The Planning Commission, and staff will be participating remotely.

Written comments regarding this item can be submitted to clerk@lovettsvilleva.gov by 3:00PM on the day of the meeting.

Members of the public may access and participate in this meeting electronically.

LVZA 2020-0003 Amendments to Sec. 42-290, Uses and structures permitted in required yards.

Consideration of an amendment to Article VIII, Section 42-290, Uses and structures permitted in required yards.

The purpose of the amendment is to allow decks in the R-C, Retirement Community zoning district to extend to one foot from the rear and side yard property lines. The R-C district has a minimum side and rear yard setback of 8 feet. Current requirements of Section 42-290 prevent installing a deck in the side yards of a residence in the R-C district and would allow only a 3-foot deck in the rear yard.

The proposed amendment would allow a 7-foot deck in either the side or rear yard provided the deck was 2 feet or less above the ground.

The proposed zoning amendment is available for review on the Town website www.lovettsvilleva.gov.

You may also request a copy be sent to you via email by calling the Town Office at (540) 822-5788 or contacting John Merrithew, Planning Director at jmerrithew@lovettsvilleva.gov. In the event the meeting is postponed, the public hearing will be convened on the next regularly scheduled meeting at the same time and place.

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Grey Goose Guys LLC, trading as Hammer and Nails Grooming Leesburg, 1610 Village Market Blvd Ste P125, Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia 20175-5100 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Day Spa license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Ilona Kirzhner, Owner Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices.

Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

CATHARINE A.T. NORTHRIP a.k.a.CATHARINE A.T. ROEMER, Plaintiff, v.

FLOYD L.S. NORTHRIP, Defendant

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT is for the Plaintiff, CATHARINE A.T. NORTHRIP, to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from the Defendant, FLOYD L.S. NORTHRIP, on the grounds of the parties having lived separate and apart without cohabitation and without interruption for a period of time in excess of one (1) year.

IT APPEARING by Affidavit that the Plaintiff has used due diligence to ascertain the whereabouts of the Defendant without effect, and therefore IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant appear before this Court on or before the 15 day of January, 2021 at 2 p.m. and protect his interests herein.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the above paragraphs be published once a week for four (4) successive weeks in Loudoun Now, a newspaper of general circulation in Loudoun County, Virginia. Loudoun Now is located 15 North King Street, Suite 101, Leesburg, VA 20176. The Clerk of this Court shall post this Order at the front door of the Courthouse, and shall mail a copy of this Order to the Defendant at his last known address at 106 Lester Dr. Camdenton, MO 65020.

10/29, 11/5, 11/12, & 11/19/20

NOTICE OF IMPOUNDMENT OF ABANDONED VEHICLES This notice is to inform the owner and any person having a security interest in their right to reclaim the motor vehicle herein described within 15 days after the date of storage charges resulting from placing the vehicle in custody, and the failure of the owner or persons having security interests to exercise their right to reclaim the vehicle within the time provided shall be deemed a waiver by the owner, and all persons having security interests of all right, title and interest in the vehicle, and consent to the sale of the abandoned motor vehicle at a public auction.

This notice shall also advise the owner of record of his or her right to contest the determination by the Sheriff that the motor vehicle was “abandoned”, as provided in Chapter 630.08 of the Loudoun County Ordinance, by requesting a hearing before the County Administrator in writing. Such written request for a hearing must be made within 15 days of the notice.

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LOUDOUN COUNTY WILL BE ACCEPTING SEALED COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR: CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW LOUDOUN COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER, IFB No. 211782 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, December 8, 2020.

A virtual Pre-Bid Conference will be held on October 30, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. via GotoMeeting, for clarification of any questions on the drawings, specifications, and site conditions.

Solicitation forms may be obtained 24 hours a day by visiting our web site at www.loudoun.gov/ procurement. If you do not have access to the Internet, call (703) 777-0403, M - F, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

WHEN CALLING, PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED ANY REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION FOR ANY TYPE OF DISABILITY IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCUREMENT. 10/29/20

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LOUDOUN COUNTY

10/29 & 11/05/20

PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) The Town of Leesburg will accept sealed proposals in the Procurement Office, 25 W. Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176, until 3:00 p.m. on November 19, 2020 for the following:

RFP NO. 100170-FY21-09 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES The Town of Leesburg is soliciting sealed proposals from qualified medical providers interested in providing occupational health services to the Town.

For additional information, visit: http://www.leesburgva.gov/bidboard 10/29/20

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Legal Notices

TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF TOWN COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING

ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316

ABC LICENSE

Sabores Del Sur Inc, trading as Sabores Del Sur, 6366 Village Center Dr. Bealeton, Fauquier, Virginia 22712-9316 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer on premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Erica Perez Blount, President Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices.

Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

10/29 & 11/5/20

Misc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

JJ044218-02-00,

Case No.:

Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Isabella S. Montenegro Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v.

Jeffrey Wayne McGowan, putative father The object of this suit is to hold a foster care review hearing and review of foster care plan pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-282 and 16.1-281 for Isabella S. Montenegro.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Jeffrey Wayne McGowan, putative father appear at the above named Court and protect his or her interests on or before December 2, 2020 at 2:00 pm 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, & 11/19/20

TO CONSIDER SPECIAL EXCEPTION APPLICATION TLSE-2019-0009, LCPS CATOCTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXPANSION Pursuant to Sections 15.2-1427, 15.2-2204, 15.2-2205 and 15.2-2285 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the Leesburg Town Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday November 10, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20176, to consider Special Exception application TLSE-2019-0009, LCPS Catoctin Elementary School Expansion.

The subject property is situated at 311 Catoctin Circle SW, measuring 17.53 acres, and is zoned R-4 – Single Family Residential District. It is further described by Loudoun County Parcel Identification Number (PIN) 231-15-4538.

Special Exception Application TLSE-2019-0009 is a request by Loudoun County Public Schools to construct a one-story 6,000 square-foot addition to the existing one-story 76,800 square-foot school.

This expansion is intended to accommodate three classrooms, a resource room, an office, and storage space. The planned addition will accommodate an increase of the school’s base capacity from 658 students to 743 students.

Additional information including copies of the full text of this proposed Special Exception application may be reviewed either electronically, or in person at Town Hall by appointment. To view the amendments electronically, please go to the Leesburg Interactive Applications Map (LIAM) on the Town of Leesburg website found at the following address: https://www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/planning-zoning/current-planningzoning-projects/liam-interactive-applications-map In accord with current Covid-19 health and safety procedures, if you wish to review hard copies, please contact Christopher Murphy, Senior Planning Project Manager, at 703-737-7009 or by email at cmurphy@leesburgva.gov to schedule an appointment during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). The copies can then be inspected at the Leesburg Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20176 during the scheduled appointment time.

At this hearing, all persons desiring to express their views concerning this matter will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations at the meeting should contact the Clerk of Council at (703) 771-2733 three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Opinion

LETTERS to the Editor

Your Turn Our Voices

For many, this may be the most divisive presidential election they’ve ever experienced. However, there is one thing on which even the most polarized voters agree: This year’s balloting will be critically important for the direction of our nation.

This is your chance to have a direct impact on that future.

Getting it right starts in the ballot box.

Go vote.

Norman K. Styer, Publisher and Editor nstyer@loudounnow.com

Published by Amendment One Loudoun, LLC 15 N. King St., Suite 101 Leesburg, VA, 20176 PO Box 207 Leesburg, VA 20178 703-770-9723

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Loudoun Now is delivered by mail to more than 44,000 Loudoun homes and businesses, with a total weekly distribution of 47,000.

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Editor: As a Juvenile Probation Officer who has served our community for 20 years, it means a lot that the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors recognizes the valuable role frontline union members play in making our county a great place to live and work.

I am the chair of our union, SEIU Virginia 512 Loudoun, because I believe we need a real voice in the services we provide and our own working conditions. Loudoun County employees do incredibly important work—providing health care and mental health services, caring for young children, maintaining our parks and natural resources, keeping our air and water clean, keeping our libraries running, and much more.

As people who provide these essential services, we need to have a seat at the table when it comes to important decisions affecting our jobs and determining the best ways to keep everyone in our county safe and healthy—a process called collective bargaining. That’s how we can negotiate to improve our jobs and essential services on which our community relies.

We’ve already accomplished a lot as union members—winning raises, expanding access to PPE during the pandemic, establishing a paid sick

leave bank, and improving staffing so we can continue doing our best for the communities we serve.

Our union is also the way we can raise our voices together to ensure what we look like or where we live doesn’t determine whether we can live healthy and whole lives. That means speaking out when elected officials like Supervisor Kershner seek to divide us and fail to acknowledge the role of structural racism in the death of George Floyd and countless other Black people across the country.

Through collective bargaining and joining together as union members, I am looking forward to working with the Board of Supervisors to build on these improvements in a way that will protect all workers and ensure all families in Loudoun County can thrive, no matter our backgrounds.

— Julius Reynolds, Ashburn

School Choice Editor: I recently had the opportunity to speak in front of the Loudoun County School Board. The board “magnanimously” allowed each speaker 30 seconds. Thirty seconds. An entire 30 seconds to state their opinion. After 30 seconds an obnoxious blaring noise LETTERS continues on page 37

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LAST WEEK'S QUESTION:

What most motivates your vote this year?

Will your family be trick-or-treating next weekend?

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maker drowned out the citizen’s voice.

This is what we call tyranny.

It is transparently obvious that the School Board cares nothing about the opinions of the “little people” whose children attend LCPS schools from afar, currently under the chaotic and unworkable distance learning regimen that LCPS has foisted upon the Loudoun taxpayer.

The best solution to this situation is school choice. It is time for county, state and federal dollars to follow the child.

Parents must be empowered to send their children to the right schools for them.

— Alastair Gregory, Aldie

Facebook search continued from page 3 demands, the Public Citizen group claims.

The group also claims that police officers could use the additional information they receive from the search warrant to charge individuals with more crimes they would have been unable to charge if the warrant had a narrower scope.

The group is asking the court to include some limitations on the search warrant even if it doesn’t quash it altogether, perhaps by constraining the search to certain keywords and by “withholding any identifying data from the government unless and until it shows to a judge’s satisfaction that a particular message or image

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Ugly Editor: On a trip to Northern Virginia this weekend to visit family, I noticed how Loudoun County and Leesburg are getting overloaded with very ugly townhouses.

I voted for a number of townhouse developments during my 10 years as a Loudoun supervisor and Leesburg councilmember, so I have no qualms with this kind of housing. However, I have never seen such ugly developments in this county in the 18 years I lived there.

Dark gray, dark brown and urinecolored yellow exteriors. ... Big garish windows you’d see in office parks. Flat roofs with no pitches. The townhomes at One Loudoun and at Sycolin and Belmont Ridge roads resemble Soviet-era

housing.

I also was disappointed in the look of the Leegate development at Battlefield Parkway and Rt. 7, and even the Knutson townhouses on South King Street— which I supported and am glad came to fruition. Ugly browns and grays. Yuck.

Only the commercial building in front of the townhouses on South King seem to reflect Loudoun’s historic architecture, and the covered seated area adjacent to the town branch is very nice.

However, how could these facades pass the town’s Board of Architectural Review, which has jurisdiction over the design of both developments? In my view, neither townhouse development reflects Leesburg’s colonial or Victorian charm.

What happened to townhouses with brick or stone facades, or which use

brighter colored siding, like white and light blue? Where are the shutters and latticed windows to resemble Loudoun and Virginia’s historic homes? Nowhere.

I have been living in Hampton Roads the past few years and have never seen more dreadful looking townhouse developments as these.

Perhaps this trend is because the town still has no decent design standards for new developments? Or, is it due to the law that ended negotiations over cash proffers?

Perhaps the county Board of Supervisors and town councils, in the future, can scrutinize these rezoning applications so Loudoun’s landscape is not littered in browns, grays and faded yellow. I’ll be back to check.

— Ken Reid, Norfolk

is potentially evidence of a crime.”

Responding to claims that the scope of the search warrant is overly broad, Drogin said the language included within “is consistent with the execution of social media site search warrants.”

The Leesburg Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Section continues to investigate the Sept. 11 incident.

The case is on the Nov. 10 Loudoun County Circuit Court docket for both parties to set a date to hear the motion to quash the search warrant. A response to the Public Citizen group’s motion has yet to be filed.

As for the COVID-19 cases at the Farmville Detention Center, four detainees filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Homeland Secu-

rity, which oversees ICE, on July 21. They are urging the court to order the federal agency to reform conditions in the detention center and abide by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines by prohibiting all transfers in and out of the detention center.

According to the lawsuit, ICE transferred 74 detainees to the Farmville Detention Center from detention centers in Florida and Arizona in June without first testing the detainees for COVID-19.

Of those transferred, 51 tested positive for COVID-19. By July, at least 315 detainees—more than 80% of the center’s population—tested positive for the virus, according to the lawsuit. On Aug. 5, a 72-year-old Canadian detainee held at the Farmville Detention Center died after

testing positive for COVID-19 a month earlier, according to an Aug. 7 statement from ICE. Although the Farmville Detention Center is a federal property operated by ICE, several organizations have been calling on Herring and Gov. Ralph Northam to take action to protect the health of the detainees.

Charlotte Gomer, Herring’s press secretary, said Herring shares the same concerns others have expressed regarding the COVID-19 issues at the Farmville Detention Center. “[Herring] will continue to urge the Trump Administration to take the COVID crisis more seriously and meet its obligations to ensure the health and safety of persons in its custody,” Gomer said. n

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Election continued from page 1 People living in three towns will also have some local choices to make. In Leesburg, the mayorship and three seats on the Town Council are up for grabs. Incumbent Mayor C. B. “Kelly” Burk and challenger R. E. “Ron” Campbell are on the ballot for mayor. Ara H. Bagdasarian, Zachary J. “Zach” Cummings, Kari M. Nacy and Bill T. Replogle are in a four-way race for three council seats.

In Hillsboro, the terms of Mayor Roger Vance, Vice Mayor Amy Marasco and Councilmembers Claudia Forbes, Bill Johnston, Stephen Moskal and Laney Oxman all expire this year. All but Johnston will seek re-election via write-ins—a tradition unique to the town. Resident Lisa Franke is seeking the write-in vote to take Johnston’s place. All six elected officials will serve two-year terms.

And in Round Hill, residents will vote in a special election to fill one Town Council seat for which Jesse Howe is running unopposed. The elected council member will serve out the remainder of a four-year term through June 30, 2022.

But despite what may be historic turnout, voters on election day in Loudoun likely will not see a crowd.

While voters in neighboring Fairfax County have complained of hours-long waits to vote early, in Loudoun, waits of more than a few minutes are uncommon. This is despite tens of thousands of Loudouners already turning out to vote, according to Deputy Registrar Richard Keech.

Altogether as of Tuesday, about 63,000 people have voted early in person, and another 53,000 by mail, Keech said. Close to 4,000 of those voted just on Tuesday, Oct. 27, and he said the pace of voting is likely to pick up in the final few days of early voting, which closes Saturday.

Loudouners have requested about 80,000 mailed ballots, and, as of Tuesday, about 20,000 have yet to be returned, Keech said.

Election officials are planning for enormous turnout. Keech said where previous elections have seen 75 to 77% turnout, they are planning on 85% turnout this year—about 240,000 people voting in Loudoun. But they estimate more than half of those, about 150,000, will have already cast their ballot when Election Day arrives—making the biggest turnout in history look like a slow local election on Tuesday.

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training that my best guess is that Tuesday should be somewhat like a slow local election, to be honest,” Keech said. “Because we should be looking at about 32 to 33% of the voters appearing on Tuesday, and I think our last local Board of Supervisors election was 42%, so it would be a relatively slow day.”

That’s good news, in a time when being in a crowd can mean putting lives at risk— and there, too, polling places are prepared.

“We are encouraging people to wear the face mask or face covering, as in Loudoun County it is required that you have it on to enter a government building, and we will have provisions in place for those people that aren’t wearing ne to vote outdoors,” said Registrar Judy Brown.

Social distancing rules also apply inside, including to political party-appointed poll watchers.

“We have tried to make it clear to the political parties that they have to understand that with social distancing, the voter is standing 6 feet in front of the check-in table, then you have everybody wearing a mask, and they have to sit 6 feet behind the people at the check-in,” Brown said.

“So it’s going to be very hard for them to hear the names that are being called out.”

This year, no international observers will be authorized because of space constraints.

Early Voting Ends Saturday This year, voters have more flexibility than ever in casting their ballot, but the last chance to vote ahead of Election Day is rapidly approaching. The final day for early voting is Saturday, Oct. 31. Election offices will be open until 5 p.m. that day.

There are five locations to vote early, and absentee ballots can be dropped off at more than a dozen places across the county.

Mail-in ballots must be postmarked no later than Election Day, and will be accepted as long as they arrive by noon on Friday.

If you requested a mail-in ballot but decide to vote in-person, you should bring that mail-in ballot with you or you will have to cast a provisional ballot. But if you’re voting early, you can simply fill out the mail-in ballot and drop it off. On Election Day, bring it with you to exchange for an in-person ballot.

Get more information on voting early, including where to drop a ballot, at loudoun.gov/VoteEarly.

Voting on Tuesday Polls in Loudoun will be open from 6

a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov 3.

Most voters will cast their ballots at their normal polling locations on Election Day, but three precincts have been moved.

Precinct 819, which previously voted at Heritage Church, has been moved to Broad Run High School, 21670 Ashburn Rd. Precinct 118, Moorefield, has been moved to Briar Woods High School, 22525 Belmont Ridge Rd. And Precinct 401, West Lovettsville, is returning to its original location of the Lovettsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Station, 12837 Berlin Turnpike.

Anyone who is not sure about where to vote may check their voter registration card or look up their polling place and related information online at vote.elections.virginia.gov. A list of polling places is available at loudoun.gov/polls.

Voters are required to show an acceptable form of identification, such as a Virginia DMV-issued driver’s license, voter registration card, U.S. passport, student ID from a college or university located in Virginia, government-issued ID or an employer-issued ID. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, voters will be required to wear a face covering when entering the polling place.

Sample ballots are online at loudoun. gov/NovemberElection.

Tallying Up With many states, including Virginia, accepting mail-in ballots after Election Day, in the case of close races it is possible voters won’t know the results of the election on Tuesday night. But in Loudoun they won’t be waiting around to find out about the ballots that have already been cast. Those ballots are already being processed, and those numbers will be released with the rest of the election results on Tuesday. But in landslide races, it may be that the relatively few late-arriving mail-in ballots won’t be enough to swing the results.

Randall to Fill in for Poll Worker County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (DAt Large) and Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling) will work at the polls in Lovettsville on election day afternoon, covering for a person who felt she had been intimidated, Randall said.

Randall first mentioned her plans during a virtual roundtable with actress and playwright Danai Gurira and other organizers on Oct. 16.

Afterward she said the change was prompted by a Facebook post.

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“We’re trying to assure them that it’s not going to be the traditional presidential election day that we’re accustomed to. It’s going to be more like a slow local election.”

— Loudoun County Registrar Judy Brown

“We had a person who normally works at the polling places in Lovettsville who was concerned about … the Facebook post from [Minuteman Arms gun shop owner] Warner Workman that said something like, ‘buy your AR-15 now because the election’s coming,” Randall said. “So she sent a letter to the paper expressing her concern and she has gotten—I guess you would call them pseudo-threats. People asking, do you know where she lives and things like that. And so she’s really worried about it.”

After a complaint to the Sheriff ’s Office, the same now-deleted Facebook post led to an investigation but no charges.

Workman previously stirred controversy for urging Lovettsville residents to arrive armed and crowd into the Town Council chambers for a vote on a proclamation declaring that the council supported the U.S. and Virginia constitutions by opposing legislation that “infringes upon the right to keep and bear arms,” according to the proclamation.

“They’ve asked if the elected officials would cover some of those polling areas, because they’re worried about Election Day intimidation,” Randall said.

Randall said she is hearing concerns about voter intimidation on Election Day and unrest afterward if President Donald J. Trump is not re-elected “from people who are not histrionic people, who don’t overreact, people who are pretty calm.”

But by and large, Brown said, poll workers have not indicated many problems.

“We’re trying to assure them that it’s not going to be the traditional presidential election day that we’re accustomed to,” Brown said. “It’s going to be more like a slow local election.” n

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The Peoples’ Constitution

Trump v. Biden and Lessons from Bush v. Gore

BY BEN LENHART

The 2000 election between George Bush and Al Gore, and the wild vote recount that followed, hold important lessons for the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, lessons grounded in the Constitution.

The 2000 election was very close and came down to a single state: whoever won Florida would win the election. The initial Florida vote results showed Bush leading Gore by less than one tenth of one percent. The ensuing Florida recount quickly turned messy, with intense arguments from both sides over which votes to count and which to reject. Even weeks after election day, without an official result in Florida, America did not know the name of its next president. The dispute rapidly landed in the Supreme Court, in a famous case called Bush v. Gore. Here are key lessons from that tumultous chapter in American politics for our 2020 election.

Bush v. Gore - Supreme Court With the Florida vote results—and therefore the entire 2000 presidential election—still up in the air more than a month after Election Day, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Bush v. Gore on Dec.11. Days earlier the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a partial recount in Florida, after state and local officials were unable to agree on the correct recount process. In a nutshell, Bush argued that that the recount should stop because it was being conducted improperly, and that the vote totals already declared by Florida election officials—where Bush led Gore by a thin margin—should be declared final.

Gore argued the opposite: he wanted the recount to continue in hopes that it would show he had more votes.

Bush won a split decision. Seven of the nine justices agreed that the Florida recount was proceeding in such an uneven fashion—with some Florida counties accepting certain questionable votes (such as those with “hanging chads”), and other counties rejecting the same type of vote—that the recount violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution, and the core principle that each vote must be given equal weight and dignity. However, the court sharply split, five to four, over

the remedy—what to do about the Constitutional violation? The majority ordered a halt to the recount, which quickly led to Gore conceding, and Bush winning the presidency by a razor thin margin (less than 600 votes out of total of 6 million total Florida votes). But four justices wrote a stinging dissent, saying that the case should have been sent back to Florida to allow for a more uniform recount (time permitting) that complied with the Equal Projection requirement.

Local Power Even though a presidential election is for federal office, the Constitution (Article 2, Section 1) provides that each state gets to set the “rules of the road” for the election, including the form of the ballot, mailin voting rules, poll hours and places, etc.

All these rules vary from state to state, even though they are all voting in the same election for the same office. Why is this? Why allow the 50 states to set up a patchwork of differing rules for the presidential election?

More broadly, why do gun laws, minimum wage laws, speed limits, divorce laws, drug laws—and thousands of other laws—vary greatly from state to state?

The answer lies at the core of America. We are not a nation where the central government controls all facets of life (a feature of dictatorships). Quite the opposite, America is a shared system of power, where the federal government holds only those powers given to it by the Constitution; all other powers remain with the states (a point confirmed by the 10th Amendment).

The courts will not hesitate to strike down federal laws—even wise ones—that exceed the powers given Congress by the Constitution.

Despite its inefficiencies, this “power sharing” model was no accident—this design was woven into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. First, when the Constitution was drafted in 1787, powerful voices demanded a small and limited central government. Having just cast off England as a distant and centralized power, we did not want to give birth to a “second England” where citizens’ lives were dictated by a central government that did not understand their local circumstances. Second, and most important, America is, at its best, a government “of, by and for the peo-

ple.” Shared power captures this idea, and allows many important decisions to made locally. Local power gives more people the chance to be active citizens and have a say in their local affairs (a quality deemed essential by the founders) and it allows for “laboratories of democracy” as states and localities try out new ideas. Finally, the vertical separation of power, by serving as a check and balance on governments at all levels, seeks to reduce the odds of government tyranny and increase the odds that “we the people” retain the fundamental liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

No Discrimination Among Votes The second lesson of Bush v. Gore is equality—all votes must be treated equally.

First and foremost, this means that any law would be struck down if it denied the right to vote, for example, based on race (violating the 15 Amendment) or gender (violating the 19 Amendment). But at a more subtle level, the Constitution prohibits unequal treament of votes by different counties or localities (or even within a county).

It may violate the Constitution if one county rejects votes where the ballot contains minor errors (for example, someone marks a circle on a ballot but fails to color in the entire circle) while another county accepts similar ballots and counts those votes. This is an example of equal votes being treated unequally.

The problem intensifies if a Democrat-leaning county uses one approach, and a Republican-leaning county uses another—in a close election, such a disparity may not only violate the Constitution, it could also change the very outcome of the election. The Bush v. Gore majority found that this sort of unconstitutional disparity was occurring in Florida: different counties were approaching the recount in such different ways that Florida votes were not receiving “equal weight and equal dignity.”

In the end, it will be question of degree: some variation among voting procedures is inevitable from place to place, and is permissible, but when those variations are big enough to cause similar votes to be counted differently, the Constitution steps in and demands a different and more equal approach.

Finality for the Nation A final lesson from Bush v. Gore is that the nation needs finality after a presidential election. The nation urgently and quickly needs to know who won. This is not idle curiosity. The identity of the next president impacts planning by businesses, governments, families and others. Enemy countries may see weakness and opportunity for mischief if America has no clear leader. Fortunately, the Constitution and federal law set out clear deadlines for determining the next president. Federal law provides that (a) the presidential election is on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November; (b) the electors making up the Electoral College vote for president and vice president on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December; and (c) the electoral votes are counted in Congress on Jan. 6. The Constitution itself (20th Amendment) provides that the new President takes office on Jan. 20.

This tight timeline was a key driver in Bush v. Gore, which heard oral argument on Dec. 11. The electors where scheduled to vote nationwide on Dec. 18 and Florida needed to officially declare its electors by Dec. 12 to ensure, according to the court, that Florida could fully participate in the electoral vote on the 18th. These short deadlines weighed heavily on the Bush v.

Gore outcome, and they would be just as important in any Trump v. Biden recount.

Conclusion. If the Trump v. Biden election is close, with disputed votes and recounts, Bush v. Gore provides a roadmap.

Each state (not the federal government) largely gets to control its own recount process, but the Supreme Court stands ready to jump if the recount procedures are unequal or unfair, or if the recount is taking too long and causing unacceptable delays in the determination of the new American president. n Ben Lenhart is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has taught Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law Center for more than 20 years. He lives with his family and lots of animals on a farm near Hillsboro.

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