The Transportation and Land Use Committee (TLUC) of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors met on October 22, 2025, to discuss and act on several items including an update on the Environment and Energy Work Plan, a proposed expedited review pilot for 100% attainable housing, and a community‑driven noise mitigation project for Runway 30 at Washington Dulles International Airport. The committee received public comments, deliberated, and voted unanimously on all action items.
Good evening, everybody. I would like to call to order the October twenty second, twenty twenty-five transportation and land use committee meeting. This room has a hearing loop. If you need hearing assistance, switch your hearing aids to telecoil mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Please see the clerk to request one. So I am excited to say that we have speakers for our fifteen minute T Lock public input session. So Charles, um if uh and if you want to speak, if you're here and you want to speak, uh, we we're at on the waiting list now, but go ahead and give your name to the clerk, and we'll see um if we have time. Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Thanks for coming. Um, my comments are not in any way intended to be criticism. Um just an observation. I want to microbial again, be very clear. I am not criticizing the process, the recommendations for the runway three project or the uh stakeholders to participants, just an observation. Um I also hope that I am not ruining what should be a combaya moment. We should be holding hands, skipping down the road, celebrating what will occur, hopefully later tonight. But my question is this where's the data? After going through the 33-page report that's up on your website, I did not see data supporting the recommendations. I would like to have seen quantifiable information that supported the three recommendations that I think you're here tonight. Now, um maybe the group tonight will mention something that's not posted on the website that could satisfy my questions. But these recommendations are not new. They've been implemented at other airports, both here in the States and in Europe. And in fact, one of the recommendations, uh, Supervisor Turner has been articulating for over two years. Um I don't have a problem with the recommendations, except I would like to know what amount of noise reduction will result in each of the recommendations. I have not been able to see that. I put the website and the 33-page report, and I'm hoping that um we'll get more information about that tonight. Again, not a criticism, just an observation. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Okay, our next speaker is Mark Glickman. Good afternoon, Chair and members of the Transportation and Land Use Committee. My name is Max Glickman, and I'm here on behalf of Enterprise Community Partners and Enterprise Community Development, one of the mid Atlantic's largest nonprofit affordable housing developers. Enterprise has invested over a billion dollars to help create nearly 23,000 affordable homes in Virginia, including more than 1,300 that we own and operate. We're eager to expand into Loudoun County, where housing affordability and opportunity are increasingly out of reach for many Loudoun residents. We truly appreciate the county's expedited review pilot for affordable housing. It's an important step forward, and we encourage you to make it permanent. We've already seen how this pilot can work. The Atlantic Boulevard project was approved in just six months. What county leaders called the platinum standard for addressing housing needs. It shows what's possible when Louden prioritizes attainable housing. For affordable housing developers like us, time kills deals. Every month of delay means higher costs, lost financing, and fewer homes built. Unlike market rate developers, we simply can't hold land indefinitely. We need predictable timelines to close financing. Our Ashburn Park and Ride attainable housing proposal illustrates this. Without an expedited review that gets us through approvals in six months, we'll miss Virginia Housing's single annual 9% tax credit round. That would push construction back a full year. To strengthen this pilot, we recommend codifying the program and making the pilot permanent, ensuring staff capacity to sustain the process, and open it opening the expedited process for mixed income projects as well.