So the Loudoun County Board of Zoning Appeals is now in session.

Before we begin, I would ask everyone present to please turn off your cell phones, or anything else that's going to make noise.

It interferes with our sound system and it interrupts our proceedings.

This board is composed of five members and two alternates, and today we have present Mr.

Kramer, Mr.

Walker, Mr.

Canonico, Mr.

Clark, and um Mrs.

Forbes.

After each property has been duly posted and after all adjacent owners have been notified by certified mail.

It takes three affirmative votes from this board for a matter to pass.

And as of this meeting, no public comment has been received related to this application.

The subject property is in the broad run election district within the Moorefield Station Development, which totals approximately 580 acres.

The subject property highlighted here in yellow is approximately 3.8 acres within the transit related center zoning district and is located at the southeast corner of Claude Moore Drive and Charitable Street.

The associated Silver Line Station is located just off the vicinity map to the northeast over here.

And the Aventon Moorefield development on site on the parcel is a six-story 425-unit multifamily apartment building.

In April of 2025, a sign development plan was approved for 19 signs throughout the site, and that plan is shown here.

Since that time, permits have been issued for the signs, and the signs have been installed.

The proposal before you does not seek to modify the number, type, size, or design of the approved signage.

This request relates to a condition of approval included in the original sign development plan, which limits the use of illuminated signage to the establishment's hours of operations or 9 p.m., whichever is earlier, and this applies to all illuminated signs.

The proposal before you would modify this condition to permit illumination consistent with the hours that areas associated with certain signage is used in order to assist with visibility, wayfinding, traffic safety, and directional guidance.

So looking at the sign development plan matrix approved last year, 19 different signs were approved, and seven of those included illumination as part of the sign design.

This proposal would affect those seven signs by changing the hours in which the signage could be illuminated.

So looking specifically at impacted signage.

The proposed changes include allowing the approved monument sign seen here to be illuminated 24 hours a day for property identification purposes.

The projecting sign would be permitted to be illuminated until 9 30 p.m.

The address sign would be permitted 24 hours a day for wayfinding purposes.

Similarly, the park and garage entry and exit sign would be permitted 24 hours a day, along with the mailroom and package room, and both of these areas are areas that may be utilized at all hours.

And I will note that there's also an illuminated sign for the leasing office, and this would only be permitted to be illuminated during business hours or until 6 p.m.

So no significant change with this signage.

And I'll also note that all illuminated signage is uh subject to illumination levels in the light and glare section of the zoning ordinance, which limits maximum illumination to 0.25 foot candles at a lot line or row right of way, and there's no proposal to modify that standard as part of this application.

Section 101103D of the zoning ordinance lists the approval criteria for which the proposed signed development plan may be approved by the BZA if the BZA finds that this request meets this criteria.

And as detailed in section five of the staff report, staff supports approval of the amended SIDP, subject to the conditions of approval that limit illumination as detailed and based on the findings for approval.

The application as conditioned is consistent with the Loudoun County 2019 general plan and meets the seven factors for consideration in section 101103D of the zoning ordinance.

This concludes staff's presentation on the Aventon Moorefield Sign Development Plan Amendment, and staff is available to answer any questions board members might have.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Um I have a couple.

I'm looking at attachment A1, which is the amended conditions of approval.

It is behind tab number one.

And it is entitled substantial conformance.

And what it says is that the sign and sign standards, perennial size, height, location, et cetera, in PRIN for the signs placed on the property shall be in substantial conformance with the new sign development plan.

I'm interested in the adjective.

What is substantial mean?

What is substantial conformance as opposed to conformance?

Why wouldn't it just be conformance?

Why, why do you what is substantial?

What does that add?

I I this is a defined term in the zoning ordinance, and it's it's typically associated with any legislative approval in recent memory has to be in substantial conformance with the plans that have been approved.

Um I I can uh pull up the uh exact definition, but um essentially when the this these um signs come in for permitting, whatever comes in for permitting has to be consistent with with what has been approved here in the sign development plan.

There really can't be any significant deviation from from what's approved.

So there can't be any deviation, or there what is the when you say that it can't be substantial deviation?

I I don't again I'm just curious as to what the purpose of the adjective is.

Chair Bradley Polk, Deputy Zoning Administrator.

Uh the definition in chapter 12 of the zoning ordinance of substantial conformance uh states it's it's determined by the zoning administrator and means conformance that leaves a reasonable margin for adjustment due to final engineering or engineering data, but conforms with the general nature of development, the specific uses and the general layout depicted by the plans, profiles, elevations, and other demonstrative materials proffered by the applicant, but in this case conditioned with disapproval if it were approved.

All right.

All right.

I don't know.

That's a term that we used all the time, which was generally used to what's the opposite of promote to decrease the likelihood of litigation by jerks trying to claim technical problems.

Will your point one millimeter off?