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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTED December 12, 1989
89-261 ADOPTED December 12, 1989
ACKNOWLEDGING FUTURE GROWTH ALONG THE DULLES TOLL ROAD
EXTENSION CORRIDOR WEST OF LEESBURG AIRPORT
WHEREAS, the Leesburg Town Council and Loudoun County Board of Supervisors are on
record unanimously supporting an extension of the Dulles Toll Road to the Route 15 by-pass in
Leesburg; and
WHEREAS, enabling statutes for private toll roads in Virginia do not permit direct
condemnation of necessary right-of-way, thus the financial viability of the Virginia Toll Road
Corporation (VTRC) proposal depends on right-of-way dedications along the proposed alignment; and
WHEREAS, the Alan I. Kay Companies, own 191 acres west of Leesburg Municipal Airport of
which 25 acres are located within the corporate limits; and
WHEREAS, the proposed toll road alignment will cross this property and VTRC has requested
a 46-acre dedication necessary to construct the road; and
WHEREAS, the Alan I. Kay Companies has expressed reluctance to dedicate this land without
some assurance from local government that future land use approvals will be secured to accommodate
an urban development pattern adjacent to the airport necessary to economically justify the land
donation; and
WHEREAS, the extension of the Dulles toll road to Leesburg will provide a limited access link
with the Metropolitan Washington area and an alternative to Route 7, thus making this improvement
to Leesburg the town's most important transportation project during the next decade; and
WHEREAS, the Joint Policy Committee of the Annexation Area Development Policies (AADPs)
lacks adequate time to address this issue prior to filing of the requisite applications before the State
Corporation Commission; and
WHEREAS, the recent Stratford rezoning on land north of the airport incorporated public land
dedications in excess of 28% of the total property, including 50 acres for the Dulles toll road
extension; and
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RESOLUTION - ACKNOWLEDGING FUTURE GROWTH ALONG THE DULLES TOLL ROAD
WHEREAS, construction of the Dulles toll road through the Alan I. Kay Companies property
coupled with annexation of the balance in the county, will greatly enhance the value of the entire
191-acre tract; and
WHEREAS, this Council wishes to acknowledge that in 1994, or sooner if the county and town
agree, annexation of an area west of Leesburg Airport including the Kay parcel, will be appropriate
based on the progress of the toll road extension to Leesburg; and
WHEREAS, this Council wishes to assure the Board of Supervisors that it intends to take a
bilateral approach to resolving the jurisdictional, utility and land use issues affecting this tract
through the Joint Policy Committee of the AADPs in the coming months:
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
The town supports the future filing of appropriate petitions to annex by ordinance or by other
appropriate methods the 166-acre Kay property west of Leesburg Municipal Airport by 1994 and
recognizes that such incorporation will carry a responsibility to appropriately zone the property to
meet urban densities consistent with the town's land use policies and the development pattern within
the Leesburg Airport area. The Council further acknowledges that an appropriate value should be
considered for any land dedication to facilitate the Dulles Toll Road extension during the rezoning
process as normally performed by the town during its review of proferred rezoning applications.
ATTEST:
PASSED this 12th day of
December , 1989.
Robert E. Sevila, Mayor
Town of Leesburg
Clerk of Cq~ncil