Loudoun County Communications Commission Meeting - June 17, 2026
Loudoun County Communications Commission Meeting - June 17, 2026
At its June 17, 2026 meeting, the Loudoun County Communications Commission (LCC) adopted the April 27 meeting minutes with an amendment, debated and approved the annual report to the Board of Supervisors, discussed updates on the All Points Broadband project, and set a new staff task. No public comments were received, and no franchisee topics were raised.
Consent Calendar
- The agenda was adopted as drafted without objection.
- The minutes from April 27, 2026 were approved after being amended to include five discussion points raised by Commissioner Tom (as noted by Dave). The amendment was incorporated.
Discussion Items
- Annual Report (Slides 5–11): Commissioners reviewed and edited the draft annual report slide by slide. Key changes included:
- Wireless gaps (slide 5): Language was clarified to state the LCC has no formal role in the final wireless gap report, but expects a briefing from DIT (Department of Information Technology) upon completion.
- Over-the-top video (slide 7): Term defined as streaming services like Netflix.
- Economic development (slide 9): Corrected reference to the Economic Development Advisory Commission (EDAC), not an authority.
- Broadband role (slide 7): Changed from "LCC doesn't have a specific role for ongoing broadband expansion" to "LCC does not have a role" in broadband oversight, and rephrased an earlier bullet to state that attempts to expand require an updated mandate from the Board of Supervisors (BOS).
- All Points / E-APB project (slide 5): Added bullet noting no broadband oversight role, specifically regarding the E-APB project.
- All Points Broadband Project Update: Commissioner Ryan expressed frustration, citing a Rappahannock News article (May 4, 2026) quoting VDOT engineer Ben Davidson that 51 land use permits were approved for All Points but none completed, and that All Points' bonding capacity had capped new permits. Ryan requested hard numbers (permits issued vs. completed) for future updates. County staff Dave clarified that:
- The bonding issue is not present in Loudoun; All Points increased its bond two months ago.
- VDOT Loudoun is a separate office from Rappahannock.
- The key metric is miles of fiber permitted, not permit count.
- All Points has changed its permitting strategy to be more aggressive, moving away from sequential to parallel submissions.
- No construction stoppage; 14 miles of permits were released in recent weeks.
- All Points is paid only after homes are serviceable (defined by DHCD as passed, no time limit for installation). Commissioner Ryan noted he and his neighbors remain frustrated.
- New Business / Action Items: A new action item (#269) was created: staff is to provide a list of cell tower applications or other communications-related items that came before the BOS in the past year. This was prompted by a suggestion to add such a slide to the annual report, though it was decided to first gather the information before incorporating.
- Outstanding Items: Commissioner noted two Verizon-related items (density change after cable franchise agreement change, and personal expansion plans report) that had been requested but not yet received.
Key Outcomes
- Annual report adoption: Motion to adopt the amended draft report carried 5-0-1, with one abstention (Aaron, who cited not having a BOS member to represent). Staff will circulate the final version and proceed with the June 30 submission deadline for the July 14 Finance/GOED Committee meeting, followed by the July 28 BOS business meeting (where it will likely be a consent item).
- New staff directive: Staff to compile a list of past-year cell tower/communications applications for the BOS.
- Next meeting: Scheduled for June 22, 2026. Because no major changes are expected, members agreed to decide closer to the date whether to hold a virtual meeting or cancel. Commissioner Aaron and others may be unavailable due to a school board meeting that evening.
Meeting Transcript
706 uh May 18th around the silver I call the Lound County Communications Commission uh meeting to order first uh item of business is the agenda in the are the are the agenda in minutes did anybody not receive the agenda or the minutes are there any corrections? Uh first are there any additions or changes to the agenda? Question yep. Um we discussed an email that I sent during our conversation during in the event in the meeting. Um in that was a bunch of ideas there. Is that I didn't know if I saw that in the minutes themselves or did they need to be included there? Uh let's come to that in a moment. Um to the agenda. Any additions or changes hearing you seeing none? If there's no objection, adopt the agenda as drafted. So adopted okay, to the minutes. The questions about um we incorporate the notes that Tom provided during the discussion on the five points that are now in the slides, but did it get added to the meeting minutes? Um I don't believe I saw it in there. Um I don't see it. Just the conversation was included, but not the points that were raised in it. So if you'd like, I can amend the slide or his points, the five points into the document. Into the minutes, yeah. Is that the is it the wish? That's right. Yeah. Um please can we amend them accordingly? Just grab those five items and drop them in as part of the discussion point. I will do that, yes. Thank you, Dave. Any further discussion on the minutes from April 27th. Then if there's no objection, we'll adopt them as uh modified. Seeing here, no objection, then they are adopted. Thanks, Dave. We have anybody from the public signed up for this evening. We do not we do not no sir. And then any uh related items to our franchisees for the attention of the commission. Nope. Then on to the one piece of uh data that we're continuing to work on. Um just an update. So uh discovered after our meeting last time that um the deadline to get it into the May Board of Supervisors session was literally the day after we met and didn't realize that as we were discussing it on on our meeting date. So unfortunately we missed that. Um so I did send out, I think an incorporation of the material Tom provided and some of the comments from the meeting earlier today. Um I realized that wasn't a lot of notice for anybody to chance to look at it. Um so if there's an objection, I'd recommend if you have them up have it up in front of you and you need the time, take a moment to look at it. And if uh there are any additional changes that we need to make, perhaps we do them now on the fly. Um, and uh finalize that and adopt it as a final product. That's great. No objections? Okay, why don't we take a moment and then just you know popcorn uh my attention when you're when you're ready? I'm good. I had a a neighbor recommend um he's been following our our conversation around this um that we add a slide or some bullet points on like the different things that have come before the county board recently that we could have provided input to. So either was a tower that we discussed around uh route seven at um where route nine comes off there. Um so you know, if we highlighted to them some of the things that we could have provided input to, they might then relate it again to these applications that they've had to think about. So that might not I thought it was a good idea, so I'm engaging it now. And I think we need Snaff's help to to kind of put that together, right?
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