Note: The meeting agenda and transcript indicate the meeting occurred on September 14, 2026, but the provided instruction specifies the date as September 17, 2026. This discrepancy is noted per accuracy rules.
The Loudoun County Heritage Commission held a regular meeting on the above date, covering a range of heritage-related topics including a presentation on the Courthouse Master Plan, discussions on public input procedures, updates on Section 106 matters, and a proposed letter on data centers. The commission also reviewed and approved minutes and heard committee reports.
Thank you for your consideration. Yeah. You ready to begin? Yeah. There's an interest in staying out of the board of hopefully. Good evening, everybody. I'm uh calling to order the September 14th, 2026 Heritage Commission meeting. I want to remind everyone that this meeting is being recorded. It'll be made available to the public on the county's website following the meeting. Should you require accommodation? Please let staff know that a hearing loop or other devices are available for your participation in the meeting. According to the Heritage Commission's bylaws, Commissioner Clark has received advanced approval by the county attorney's office to participate remotely from Syracuse, New York for continuing education reasons, which made his physical presence not possible. Welcome, Reed. We're happy to have you, and thank you for making the effort to uh join us tonight. Thanks for having me. Confirm that we have a quorum at this time allowing the commission to uh conduct business. Uh before we get started, I'd like to take a moment to remind the public about how the heritage commission conducts its meetings. I've been asked to uh uh make this point because of uh things that have happened in other meetings. There is no public comment period included in the Heritage Commission agenda, uh, but the commission website does provide opportunities for the public to indicate that they would like to speak at the meeting and in that way be included on the agenda. Um everybody listening in the audience, uh all of you here tonight are asked to uh uh maintain a good demeanor. Speaking and shouting from the audience is not permitted to the meeting. Cheering and clapping are not permitted to the meeting, and anyone who is disrupted will disruptive will be asked to later. And I uh emphasize that none of this has ever been a problem in a heritage commission meeting that I've uh attended. I think we've jinxed it now. Yeah, because it is uh the first item for the uh commission business is to review and approve the draft agenda for the meeting. Now there's uh I do want to comment on the uh draft agenda. Uh as part of the uh land use committee report tonight, uh the land use committee chairman Kara Connell will be making a presentation about data centers and a proposed letter from the commission on that subject. And uh in my view, and I think in the view of many of the members of this commission, this is a critically important issue. The issue of data centers is existential, I think, to the future of the county and to the county's heritage, and it's a matter that requires I think careful consideration and considered judgment on the part of uh our commission. Uh so I consider that to be very very important. Uh now with the uh comments presented and with the draft agenda that you have received. There's no power. Uh there are there any suggestions for modifications, additions, or uh other alterations to the agenda. Hearing none, I ask if there's a motion. Oh, excuse me. We adopt the agenda as presented. Thank you. Second uh and may I have a vote? All those in favor? Any opposed? The agenda is adopted. Uh moving on to the minutes. Uh each of you has received a copy of the minutes of our meeting of August 3rd, 2026. Uh if anybody needs a moment to review those minutes, let me know. Uh seeing no indication of that. Oh wait a minute, uh Laura, do you have a comment? Yes, I have a change. Okay. So under stewardship, um, if I said this, I didn't mean it. So I'd like to correct it in the minute that the drafts would not be available at the end of August to the commission for review.