Public Hearing to Discuss Improving Loudoun's Unpaved Roads

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and the Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a joint public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2015-2020 Secondary Road Six-Year Plan at the Board’s monthly public hearing Wednesday, Oct. 8.

The hearing was previously scheduled for Sept. 10.

Loudoun County boasts 330 miles of unpaved roads, the most of any county in Virginia, according to Geary Higgins of the Catoctin District Board of Supervisors. Loudoun County’s fund for paving unpaved roads fell by $40 million - $19 million from a decrease in gas tax revenue and $21 million from lowering the qualifying threshold from 200 car trips per day to 50. The lowering of the threshold has “serious implications” for the VDOT’s Secondary Six-Year Plan by stretching the limited budget across so many low-traffic unpaved roads, Higgins wrote in a letter to the editor at Leesburg Today.

The public is encouraged to comment on proposed secondary road projects in the Six-Year Plan, which will be included in the public hearing packet and posted to the Loudoun County website at http://www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments prior to the meeting.

The public hearing begins at 6 p.m. in the Board Room of the Loudoun County Government Center, located at 1 Harrison Street, S.E. in Leesburg. The hearing will be broadcast on Comcast Government Channel 23, Open Band Channel 40 and Verizon FiOS Channel 40. It will also be available via webcast at www.loudoun.gov/webcast.

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