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Proposed road brings up concerns for Kincaid Forest residents

Tue sda y, Mar. 1 by Laura Pe te rs | 17 com m e nts | Em ail this story

During a March 1 public information meeting at Cool Spring Elementary over the county’s
Government Support Center amended plan, residents brought up their concerns over a new road
that would directly affect traffic through their neighborhood.

Included in the plan, is more than 600 acres of land where the county will put the Philip A.
Bolen Park. The remaining land will house a new Government Support Center that will include
a juvenile detention center, warehouses, new training centers, and other governmental offices
and facilities.

The new road is proposed is to go through Kincaid Forest along Kincaid Boulevard, which is now
a dead end. The new road is to link Sycolin Road to a new entrance on Route 7.

Residents of Kincaid Forest are strongly against the additional road because it would create more
traffic.

The new road, Crosstrail Boulevard, is set to connect Sycolin Road to Route 7 in the long run of
the projected plan. The next step of building Crosstrail Boulevard is to connect it to an expanded
Kincaid Boulevard to defer traffic to Battlefield Parkway, before the full connection to Route 7 is
completed. By doing this, it will increase traffic flow throughout the Kincaid Forest neighbor.

“As they’re looking at it, the juvenile detention center will be right behind Kincaid Forest. Kincaid Most Popular in News
Forest is now a dead end, and the residents want to keep it a dead end,” said Loudoun County Frida y, Fe b. 25 | 7342 vie ws
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Kathleen Quinn, a resident of Kincaid Forest and part of the Homeowners Association, first Ashburn wom an
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fellow residents and created petitions to keep the road from being built. Man stabbed, say s he was too
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Burk announced that there is a Government Center Master Plan Steering Committee that will spending life in prison for killing
have one member of the Town of Leesburg’s Planning Commission, the Leesburg district girlfriend
planning commissioner, and two representatives from both Kincaid Forest and Tavistock Farms
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“Hopefully the two communities will work together,” Burk said.

Crossroads Boulevard will be a six-lane divided road starting at Sycolin Road that will connect to
an extended four-lane Kincaid Boulevard. Stay
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“If they only build it half-way, Kincaid will just be subject to commuter traffic. The issue is the
order in which they build the road,” Quinn said.

Kincaid Forest would be subject to the traffic heading to Sycolin Road off of Battlefield Parkway.
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“This is a community road for us. It’s a residential road, where our kids are on daily. Kids are on Twitter
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going to get hit. Their safety needs to be considered first,” Doug Singel, resident of Kincaid
Forest, said.

“Y ou have hundreds of government workers plus the park and then the park and ride. That will
have tremendous effect on these communities. I think this is a planning mess,” Ken Reid,
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The final plan, which isn’t concrete, will not be finished until 2016 or 2017.

“It’s not going to happen in a two-year period, maybe in 10. Some may not even be built,” Mark
Hoffman, a civil engineer for Loudoun County, said about the roads and the proposed
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Both Tavistock Farms, which would also be affected by the increase of traffic flow with the new
road, and Kincaid Forest residents voiced similar concerns about safety issues, traffic flow and
the effect the road would have on the current park and ride lot. Crosstrail would also serve as a
road for people who use the park and ride lot.
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completed, according to Paul Brown, Capital Budget Manager for Loudoun County. The final we e k ly update s
decision on this plan will happen in mid April, when the committee will meet and make a
recommendation to the board, and it is open to public discussion.

Comments

W e d, Mar 02 at 12:07 PM by CottonEyeJoe:

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Got to say, I kind of feel sorry for those residents. barbed wire fences and armed
guard towers 600 feet from your kid’s backyard playhouse? Can you imagine
the real estate agent talking to a prospective buyer: “don’t worry, you only see it is an inte ractive , digital re plica
in the winter, when the leaves are of the trees….”. of the printe d ne wspape r.
Open the e-edition now.

W e d, Mar 02 at 12:07 PM by concerned parent:

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Y es, I was taught not to play in the street I was a kid. But that didn’t stop a
middle school student from being hit by a car & killed when I was a kid. Kids are
kids and accidents happen—we adults are responsible not only for teaching our
kids how to be safe, but also for setting up a safe environment. Y es, Kincaid is
planned to be a collector road with traffic—but not the alternate to Route 7 or W e e k ly He llo Loudoun Bridal Guide
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Sycolin.

W e d, Mar 02 at 11:55 AM by Edwards landing:

Gotta love the kincaid residents… “build battlefield to make it easier for me to get He alth and Sum m e r 2010 Taste
to costco and ruin your neighborhood, but I dont want you touching my 4 lane Be auty 2011 C am ps 2011 of Loudoun

dead end street that I didn’t research before buying”

W e d, Mar 02 at 11:47 AM by Townie:

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What’s really ‘dumb’ here is the county wanting to spend millions to extend Hom e & Garde n Soon Soon

Kincaid and Crosstrails just to service a juvenile detention center. Would it not
be cheaper to just put the detention center somewhere else where there is road
access? I don’t fault Burk or Reid for trying to help. This is what they were
elected to do

W e d, Mar 02 at 11:25 AM by Leesburg Resident:

As a child, I was told to never play in the street. Don’t parents tell their kids this
anymore? And I grew up in the suburbs with very busy streets.

W e d, Mar 02 at 11:16 AM by Kincaid resident:

The Kincaid Blvd extension will not make it easier to get to Wegmans. There is
NO PROJECT and NO MONEY to build Crosstrail through to Rt 7 and
Wegmans.

W e d, Mar 02 at 11:13 AM by Kincaid resident:

Many residents of Kincaid Forest knew & understand that Kincaid Blvd would be
extended with increased traffic. The issue is building only PART of Crosstrail.
Once Crosstrail is built all the way between Rt 7 and Sycolin, it will be the
preferred route. By building only the lower part of Crosstrail, this plan sets up

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