The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on November 12, 2025, addressing 15 agenda items. The meeting began at approximately 7:00 PM. The board adopted a consolidated consent agenda for items 1-11, discussed amendments to tax relief, swimming pool regulations, the General Plan, and several land use applications, and deferred or postponed action on others. Key outcomes included forwarding the Residences at Dulles Plaza (100% affordable housing) to the December 2 board meeting, sending the swimming pool ordinance to TLUC for further review, and approving the Cochran Tech data center project.
Bob Wertz, are you in the audience? Will you come here, please? All the way to the daisy. Okay. Well, good evening, supervisors, good evening, staff, and good evening, Loudon. Like the call or order the November twelfth, two thousand twenty-five, Loudon County Board of Supervisors public hearing. Yeah, November twelfth. Um this room has a hearing loop. If you need hearing assistance, please put your hearing aid to the telecom mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Please see the clerk to request one. But everyone please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Um I uh two quick announcements. Every year, um there is a uh I I try to do one of the cult meetings. Cult is the coalition of an of Loudon Towns. And unfortunately they do have their meetings at the same time that we're having our public hearing. But I but it's an annual meeting and I I try to go talk to the to the mayors. So it between seven and seven fifteen, Mr. Kirshner and I will be leaving to go to the cult meeting. We'll try to get done with as much as as much of this agenda as possible, but we will be leaving to go to the cult meeting between cult, not cult. Cult meeting between seven and seven fifteen. Um the other announcement is because of the holiday this week, the finance meeting was was pushed to tomorrow. And so um MBTA, the November Transportation Authority meeting is also tomorrow. It's a really uh fairly heavy agenda. And so I need to I am the chair of MVTA as well as being obviously chair of the county, so I will not be at the finance meeting tomorrow because I will be at the MBTA meeting, but I will go back and I will watch all the um information that has that happens on the MBTA meeting. And thirdly, I was told not to do this by him, but I have to do it anyway because I was told to do it. Um there is a birthday coming up for Mr. Turner. He will be 40 and we are going to in two days. No, no, tomorrow. He'll be 40 tomorrow, and so Mr. Turner, his his his very young staff made him a uh made him their own birthday card. Happy forty birthday, Mr. Turner. Yay. Um members of the public addressing the board this evening, you may only register to speak on matters that have been advertised for this public hearing. Due to the broadcast delay, any member of the public who are not in the boardroom wishing to address the boards on items 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, which are on the consolidated agenda. Please see the number that is scrolling across your screen at this time. If you register to speak, you'll be allotted two and a half minutes. If you're in the boardroom, we ask that when your name is called, you come to the podium and state your name for the record. The timer on the podium will indicate your remaining time. When your time has expired, please yield to floor to the next speaker. If you're providing comments via phone, I'm going to ask that you set your own watch or stopwatch or phone or something. Um, because I won't stop you when you get close because it messes up your flow. But when your time is up, I will stop you. So if you can set your own clock, if you're if you can't see your clocks in the room when you're on the phone, I'd appreciate that. Um and when taking public input for items, I would first ask if there's anyone in the boardroom wishing to speak, and then I will go to the moderator, moderator, who is Emma Hopping Gartner, and ask if there are any speakers via online. Please note that there's a slight delay between the broadcast and the boardroom. Emma, can you hear me? Yes, ma'am.