OpenBand Franchise, DTC Rezoning on Hearing Agenda

The OpenBand franchise agreement, a rezoning proposal at the Dulles Town Center, a secure office park in Leesburg and plans at Trump National to build a golf cart storage facility in a Floodplain Overlay District are all items on the public hearing agenda Monday, June 13.

• OPENBAND FRANCHISE AGREEMENT OpenBand hope to renew its franchise agreement. OpenBand been operating under extensions for the past three years. Supervisors last week voted to ask Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to investigate OpenBand, a cable, video and Internet provider, for possible antitrust violations. At that time, the board also voted to advertise an additional public hearing on the franchise agreement, if needed. Two Loudoun communities, Lansdowne on the Potomac and Broadlands Southern Walk, served by OpenBand have raised concerns about long-term contracts the company has with homeowner’s associations and the inability for other providers to serve homes in those communities.
• DULLES TOWN CENTER REZONING DTC Partners has submitted an application to rezone 188 acres at the Dulles Town Center from office park and industrial uses to office park and town center uses. DTC’s plans calls for up to 1, 230 multifamily homes and up to 5.4 million square feet of office, commercial and retail uses. An associated special exception request seeks a hotel/motel use. The planning commission unanimously recommended approval of the application, while the planning staff, “cannot fully support” it, according to the staff report. The staff report indicates the proposal lacks adequate transportation mitigation, adequate civic uses or sufficient capital facilities contributions.
• STONEWALL SECURE BUSINESS PARK Stonewall Creek LLC has proposed a rezoning and several special exceptions to permit a secure office park along Sycolin Road south of Leesburg and immediately south of the newly open Philip A. Bolen Park. The request calls for 3.9 million square feet of data center uses and another 1 million square feet non-data center uses permitted under special exception.
• TRUMP GOLF CART BUILDING New York-based Trump National Golf Club Washington DC LLC has submitted a special exception request to allow a 3,00-square-foot golf cart storage building within the Floodplain Overlay District. The building would be adjacent to another maintenance building that’s also within the floodplain.

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Public hearings take place in the boardroom at the County Government Center on Harrison Street in Leesburg. Hearing may also be viewed on on Comcast Channel 23 or Verizon Channel 40 or via Web cast here. In addition, residents may email comments to supervisors at bos@loudoun.gov.