LVE Files Motion for Reconsideration with the SCC + Town Hall TONIGHT @ 7PM

TLDR: We filed a Petition for Reconsideration with the SCC today asking the Commission to reopen the record.

New law. New information.

We have a long way to go - come hear where things stand and what comes next.

Town Hall Tonight

Rock Ridge High School , 7 PM.

For as long as Loudoun Valley Estates, Rosa Lee Carter Elementary, and Rock Ridge High School have coexisted, the wooded corridor along Broad Run has been one continuous, shared space. Our kids have played there. They’ve walked and biked those trails to get to school. Teachers have held classes outdoors there. Sports teams have used the trails for training runs. Families have walked those paths every day for years. There has never been a fence, a barrier, or a real boundary – just green space that belongs to all of us.

Loudoun Valley Estates HOA is exploring the donation of Parcel L – approximately 12.74 acres of riparian green space along Broad Run – to the Loudoun County School Board. The potential transfer would convey ownership of the land to the School Board for educational, recreational, and open-space purposes, while permanently preserving it for the trails, outdoor learning, and passive recreation that have defined this corridor for as long as our community has been here.

This land was set aside as green space when this community was built. That was the promise made to the families who formed this neighborhood and put down roots here – and every one that has come here since. It was the promise made to the schools when they were built alongside us – that the land around them would remain open, natural, and available for the students and families they serve. This green space was never intended to be preserved for all these years only to clear 100- to 150-foot-wide swaths of trees to make room for high voltage power lines, destroying everything that families and schools had legitimate reason to believe was protected. There was never any other intent for this property, ever. The transfer of the land to the Schools can preserve that promise and make it permanent.

Technically, there has always been a property line between LVE’s common area and the adjacent school campuses – a line drawn by the original developer when the neighborhood was built. But on the ground, that line has never mattered. The land has functioned as one shared space for the community and the schools alike.

We are already watching that promise be stripped away on one side of our community. Families in this neighborhood have listened to heavy construction for years as the landscape around us has changed. The question now is whether the remainder – the green corridor our children still walk through every day – will be taken too. Schools and residential communities should not be the path of least resistance for this kind of infrastructure. It is wrong.

Dominion has touted this as a reliability project. But there has never been a reliability issue here. The distribution lines in our neighborhood are already underground. You could count on one hand the number of power interruptions we have had over the last 25 years. This is not about keeping the lights on for families, or powering a hospital, or making sure a school stays open during a storm. This is solely about powering one industry. Dominion has learned from past projects to frame it as reliability because that framing is harder to oppose. But the record is clear about what this project is and who it serves.

Data centers are part of this community now. But if they are part of this community, then we all need to coexist – and they need to act like it. We understand the need. But it has to be done responsibly. If Dominion had done this the right way – proactively, and where this infrastructure belongs – we would not be having this conversation right now, and they might not be looking at years of delays. If Dominion owns up to the situation it has orchestrated and played a significant role in creating – and finally addresses it – we can get to a real solution that works for the whole community, in a much more timely manner.

Today we filed a Petition for Reconsideration with the State Corporation Commission asking the Commission to reopen the record and reconsider the currently selected routing in light of newly enacted legislation that specifically identifies this project as a candidate for underground construction, and legal obstacles that impact the routes currently under consideration.

We are exploring the potential transfer with the School Board.

We are grateful the Board is willing to engage with us on this, and we are hopeful we can formalize it together. This community stands behind them in doing so.

LVE’s intent to explore this transfer has been communicated to the State Corporation Commission as part of LVE’s Petition for Reconsideration in Case No. PUR-2025-00056, filed April 29, 2026.

Please try to attend tonight if you can.