Controversies over rail decision and Sterling District supervisor were top issues of board’s first year.
Two issues dominated the first year of the current Loudoun County Board of Supervisors’ lineup – the question of whether to approve extending Metrorail’s Silver Line to Dulles Airport and into Loudoun County, and charges surrounding Sterling District Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio. Metrorail The Metrorail decision was not only the Board’s most important decision of the 2012, it may have been the most significant in decades. Seen as a major economic development stimulus by the business community – and some supervisors – it was also strenuously opposed by many residents for a variety of reasons, most notably the cost of the project and means of financing it. With an all-Republican board that placed a high priority on economic development, one …
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Members of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors who were elected in November held their first board meeting today, Jan. 3 in Leesburg. For information about the supervisors, visit their new Loudoun web pages: Looking for your district? Check out the map attached with the pictures above. More detailed maps can be found on the county's Flickr page.
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The Republican nominee for Ashburn supervisor lays out his platform.
As the son of a local government politician, Ralph Buona is no stranger to the campaign trail. While growing up, he worked on many of his father’s campaigns. But Buona never thought he would follow in his father’s footsteps. He never considered running for office until he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce and recognized a void in Loudoun’s local government. “Every time I’d go to a [Chamber of Commerce] meeting, it came up repeatedly that we need business people to get into elected office,” Buona said. “It struck me that as the head of the business community, if I wouldn’t do it, who would?” So, earlier this year, Buona launched his campaign to join the Board of Supervisors in the newly …
No Toll Increase
2:36 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
They said we needed Dulles Rail to bring commercial development and bring down property tax rates. After less than 6 months, how's that working out? So far we have Toll Brothers asking to rezone Belmont Executive Center from commercial to more residential, and MWAA looking to monopolize commercial development with their property-tax-exempt land surrounding the Rt. 606 station. Bait and switch. more ›