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Purcellville officials, residents oppose Valley Commerce Center; planning commission sends application to work session
Summary
The Loudoun County Planning Commission on July 29 deferred action on the proposed Valley Commerce Center — a 117-acre industrial rezoning north of Route 7 in the Purcellville JLMA — and voted 8-1 to send the application to a planning commission work session after hours of public comment and staff concerns about land-use consistency, groundwater and transportation.
The Loudoun County Planning Commission on July 29 voted 8-1 to send the proposed Valley Commerce Center rezoning in the Purcellville JLMA to a planning commission work session after a long public hearing period that drew elected town leaders, dozens of residents and several business proponents.
The applicant seeks to rezone roughly 117 acres in the Percival (Purcellville) JLMA from JLMA-3 to a Planned Development Industrial Park (PDIP) and to modify zoning standards to permit on-site wells and septic instead of central utilities. The planned development concept shows a mixture of flex/industrial buildings, roughly 1,300,000 square feet of total industrial area (applicant-supplied upper bound) with landscape buffers, proposed traffic mitigation proffers and a plan to reserve right-of-way for the Percival North Collector Road (PNCR) alignment.
Staff opposition: County staff told…
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