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Leesburg OKs Partial Demolitions For New Courthouse Sports
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The Loudoun County Courthouse monuments are undergoing their once-a-decade maintenance routine this week, just in time for Memorial Day. Alex Condor, pictured, and other workers from Standard Restoration & Waterproofing scraped off a coat of marble poultice from each of the war memorials before applying a new coat thereafter. For a listing of Memorial Day events, see Page 22.
eesburg’s Board of Architectural Review on Monday night approved permits allowing the Loudoun government to partially demolish four historic district buildings on Edwards Ferry. However, that action may fall short of what is needed to permit the expansion of the county courts complex to move forward. The issue likely heads next to the Town Council. In a motion passed on a 5-1-1 vote, with Mark Malloy opposed and Paul Reimers absent, the BAR allowed the county to tear down parts of the four buildings—additions built in the early 1800s that are deemed non-historic—but required the origi-
nal structures to be preserved in their original footprints. The panel also required the county, represented in the case by Dewberry Architects Inc., to conduct various studies on the buildings to identify any information important to Leesburg’s history. Last week, the county Board of Supervisors reviewed options to save all, parts or some of the buildings, which the architects say must be removed to accommodate the construction of a new General District Court building on the former county jail site east of Church Street. According to a staff report, the option to save all the buildings could add $7.8 million to the $87 million project. Redesigning the project to save the building with the most historic value at 112
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606 interchange and at the Rt. 50 interchanges planned at Northstar Boulevard, Gum Springs Road and Loudoun County Parkway. Another option would instead build a new four-lane limited access highway from Northstar Boulevard north of Rt. 50 following the Broad Run floodplain to the intersection of Arcola Road and Rt. 606. Residents in neighborhoods such as South Riding, Stone Ridge and Kirkpatrick Farms favored that route, while those in Brambleton supported the Rt. 50 plan. The Kimley-Horn report, however, says that Rt. 50 doesn’t need lanes dedicated to airport
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traffic, and that even if 6 million square feet of land was developed in the area, generating a work force of 10,000 employees, Loudoun’s planned road system still would function properly. That network, which would be built out by 2040, would include: • widening Rt. 606 to a minimum of six lanes (limited access); • constructing and widening Loudoun County Parkway to six lanes; • building Arcola Boulevard to six lanes; • completing Northstar to a width of six lanes; • widening Rt. 50 to six lanes with limited access;
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t’s not necessary to build a new road to provide access to Dulles Airport from the west, according to a report that was to be presented Wednesday to Loudoun supervisors. The county’s planned road network can handle the development projected for the airport and for the western Dulles area as a whole without a new east-west roadway, says the document prepared by consultant Kimley-Horn. “Even at the heaviest saturation in the PM
peak hour, there are few links that exceed capacity,” it says. The Virginia Department of Transportation in 2013 began assessing the need for a new road that could help move cargo traffic and serve other needs, and last year the agency announced that its preferred route would be in the median of Rt. 50. The idea is that Rt. 50 would have six lanes for general traffic and two lanes where the median is now—one eastbound and one westbound—reserved for vehicles going to and from Dulles Airport. In addition, access to the airport lanes would be provided at the Rt. 50/Rt.
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