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The Stewardship Subcommittee of the Loudoun County Heritage Commission met in person in the Dulles Room at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Virginia, to review draft Stewardship Management Plans (SMPs) for Lanesville Heritage Area and Lovettsville Park. Commissioner Kimball called the meeting to order. Participants included Commissioner Sternitsky (Department of Planning and Zoning), Heidi Steventrant and Jennifer Moore (Department of General Services), Artie Wright, and Mark Novek (Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services). Note: The meeting record is dated October 7, 2026, while the agenda and transcript text state October 5, 2026.
Commissioner Kimball on October 5th, 2026, calling the stewardship subcommittee meeting to order present. We have from the subcommittee, Commissioner Sternitsky from the Department of Planning and Zoning, Heidi Steventrant and Jennifer Moore from the Department of General Services, Artie Wright, and from Department of Parks Recreation and Community Services, Mark Novek. So Artie, I thought what we could do. What how would this best help you to do this? And which SMP would you like to start with? Sure. So the goal tonight would be to uh walk away with consensus that we uh we take uh I'll take everybody's comments, um, send them over to CP and G. We'll get the drafts um cleaned up and ready to go to a presentation to the HC at perhaps maybe next month's meeting. Okay, um, and then release it to the Heritage Commission next month or do that beforehand. Or does it depend what CPG gets it done? Yeah, I think they could probably I would think we could probably turn it around pretty quickly within weeks and ideally we could um the process before was um if I remember correctly, we the sub the the committee um once we're satisfied with the drafts and we present it to the full HC and then on to T Line. So you received comments from us and you got you received a comment from uh Donna about lanesville. I don't know if I received Donna's. Let me um let me finish um getting booted up here one second. Maybe I'll just forward them to you because I have the comments from Donna. I didn't see Don was comment. Um yeah, just I thought you know this evening would be good to um if anybody has anything specific, you know, um capture I I have some things that I I have concerned with. Okay. So which one should we start with? Um let's go with lanes. Okay. So I'll I'll go and start. So uh as a whole, I I'll say I think the SP's lanesville and Buzzlother both look really good. Um what I've what I don't like, what I want to see um in the SMPs is um in the executive summary. Um we really need CPG to kind of give us the um in your face kind of version of what we need to do with the buildings, right? So the building, the lanes of house needs quite a bit of quite a bit of rehabilitation. If you you know, if you look through the SP, it's you really got to dig hard to kind of find out about how much effort really is needed to rehabilitate that building. But if you look at the structural engineers reports report on Lanesville, um they really make it clear, you know, there's some pretty significant deficiencies that need to be addressed and and rather urgently, you know. We've got numerous windows uh on the building that are racked, doors and windows that the window and door jams and the frames are racked so bad that some of the glass is cracking in the windows, some places you can put your fingers right through, you know, between the sash might look like that, you know. There's I mean I'm exaggerating, but in the doors, you know, or um you'll see a door that's racked like that where you could you know put your foot through there practically at the bottom, the other end is tight. So what's going on with that? I'm a carpenter by trade. Um, been in construction my whole life. So as the engineer noted, there's some pretty significant structural deficiencies that are happening. I think what happened has happened is through the decades of