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Volume 19 Issue 1
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April 28, 2022
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Middleburg considers Boundary Line Adjustment for entry-level housing
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Jackie Fishman
Middleburg Population Changes Presenting Challenges These proposals could help address Middleburg’s current housing challenges, which have been brewing for decades. A look at the Town’s population fluctuations illustrates these concerns. Mayor Littleton provided a look at some population statistics in his presentation. In 1970, the Town’s population was 833. Fifty-two years later, the Town is home to 870
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he future is calling Middleburg, and now is the time for residents to seriously consider how they want to answer that call. Affordable and entrylevel housing is increasingly scarce in Town, which creates a problem for service personnel, teachers, and restaurant staff. This issue has been exacerbated by the recent housing crunch in our country, which has seen the cost of the average rental increase by 12.7 percent since 2019 in Loudoun County, according to a recent Washington Post report. This increase, coupled with the scarcity of housing options within town limits, burdens younger residents who work in and therefore want to live in or near Town. On Tuesday, April 19, Mayor Trowbridge Littleton held a town council public information session to introduce and discuss proposals from two property owners interested in the annexation of their land or portions of their land into the Town through a process formally called a “Boundary Line Adjustment (BLA).” This meeting and several others to occur in the next few months are the efforts by the Council to present the details of these proposals to the community, get input and feedback from residents, and answer any questions. The Mayor’s presentation is available as a PDF file. You can also download the full PowerPoint
presentation to see the animation of maps/graphics (requires Microsoft PowerPoint). These two proposals are from two different entities, and both are asking for the Town’s boundaries to be extended. An additional 55 acres of property would be added to the Town between these two proposals. These acres would help increase the affordable housing options and the green space within town limits. On the west side of Town, the Windy Hill Foundation, a nonprofit organization, seeks to turn the former Maggie Bryant estate into an affordable housing community. On the east side, Homewood Farms wants to develop 22 acres of property on Foxcroft Road, east of Salamander and Wolver Hill, and develop a housing community with condominiums, townhomes, and small, cottage-style homes. Homewood Farms already owns 15 acres in Town, and this project would add 22 acres to their property holdings.