Attainable Housing Development Considered For Ashburn Park And Ride Site

ASHBURN, VA — Attainable housing units are the target of a development that the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors will later consider.

On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors voted to consider the attainable housing development at the Ashburn North Park and Ride (45151 Russell Branch Pkwy, Ashburn, VA). Loudoun Now reported that the Ashburn North Park and Ride closed in October 2022, but there is a nearby One Loudoun Park and Ride.

A zoning application would be required to approve the development, but that application has not yet been submitted.

There has been a years-long process to consider proposals for the site. The county had received an unsolicited proposal from NRP Group in 2021 and later approved an agreement to develop 450 multifamily units, including 113 units designated as attainable housing for households with up to 50 percent and 80 percent of the area median income. However, NRP Group lost control of an adjacent land parcel, and the county ended the agreement.

In October 2023, the county started to accept new ideas for developments with attainable housing for the site. Proposals ranged 66 to 235 units, including market-rate housing in some.

The proposal selected to continue with negotiations involves 139 attainable units. That includes 131 rental units, with 30 for households making up to 30 percent of the area median income and 101 units for households with up to 60 percent of the area median income. The remaining eight units would be ownership units for households making up to 100 percent of the area median income. The county staff presentation to the board included a conceptual site plan and rendering, which are not final proposals.

The proposal includes a $4.2 million county loan for the project and $2.8 million capitalized ground lease payment to the county through refinancing. It also included 30 project-based vouchers through the county, but the U.S. Housing and Urban Development withdrew the voucher funding to the county.

Along with the change to the project-based vouchers request, the county is also requesting the applicant reduce the maximum ownership unit sales price from $495,000 to $355,000. That number would align with the maximum sales prices set for unmet housing needs annually by the county’s Affordable Dwelling Unit Advisory Board.

The zoning application could be submitted in April, followed by a loan application in October. Action on rezoning and county loan could be expected in February 2026. According to the tentative timeline, construction would start in August 2026 and be complete in fall 2028.