Environment & Infrastructure

Growth, data centers, transportation, utilities, schools, stormwater, and public facilities must be planned together. Loudoun cannot continue approving development first and dealing with the consequences later.

Plan responsibly. Build for the future.

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Introduction

Infrastructure decisions shape daily life. Residents experience them through traffic, power lines, bus stops, sidewalks, road conditions, flooding, school capacity, parks, noise, and access to public services.

Jon supports a long-term approach that protects neighborhoods, strengthens environmental standards, and ensures that growth pays for the infrastructure it requires.

Loudoun has the resources to plan well. The county needs the discipline and leadership to do it.

What Jon Supports

Plan Infrastructure Before Approving Growth

  • Transportation analysis

  • School-capacity review

  • Utility planning

  • Public safety needs

  • Parks and recreation capacity

  • Stormwater review

  • Long-term maintenance costs

  • Cumulative impact analysis

New development should not be approved without a realistic understanding of its impacts.

Residents should not be left paying to correct problems that were foreseeable.

Data Center Infrastructure Accountability

  • Full analysis of energy impacts

  • Transparency about substations and transmission lines

  • Stronger utility coordination

  • Greater industry responsibility for infrastructure costs

  • Noise and visual mitigation

  • Appropriate siting

  • Protect neighborhoods and environmentally sensitive areas

Data centers create extraordinary demands on the electric grid and surrounding infrastructure.

Data center approvals must consider the combined impact of projects already approved, under construction, and proposed.

Better Roads and Safer Streets

  • Repairing unsafe roads

  • Improving dangerous intersections

  • Safe pedestrian crossings

  • Sidewalk connections

Transportation investment should improve safety and reliability rather than simply encourage more traffic.

  • Accessible curb ramps

  • Bicycle infrastructure where practical

  • Better coordination of road construction

  • Transparent project priorities

Public Transit That Serves Residents

Transit should connect people to jobs, schools, medical care, public services, and community life.

Transit efficiency should be measured by whether people can get where they need to go safely and on time.

  • Reviewing routes based on actual rider needs

  • More connections to neighborhoods, jobs, schools, and services

  • More frequent schedules

  • Improved bus-stop infrastructure

  • Clear public information and a mobile app

  • Explore fare-free Loudoun County commuter bus service.

Protect Green Space and Tree Canopy

  • Tree-canopy protections

  • Stream and watershed protection

  • Responsible stormwater management

  • Preservation of meaningful green space

Growth should not erase the natural features that make Loudoun a desirable place to live.

  • Native landscaping

  • Stronger environmental review

  • Public access to parks and natural areas

Public Power and Utility Accountability

  • Public ownership models

  • Distribution-only options

  • Costs and financing

  • Ratepayer protections

Jon supports a feasibility study on public or municipal electric-power options for Loudoun.

  • Reliability

  • Local accountability

  • Renewable-energy opportunities

  • Phased implementation

Electric service should be accountable to residents, not driven only by private profit.

Equitable Infrastructure

Older and less affluent neighborhoods should receive the same quality of infrastructure and maintenance as newer, wealthier communities.

Public investment should not depend on a neighborhood’s income or political influence.

  • Safety

  • Usage

  • Accessibility

  • Condition

  • Community need

  • Equity

  • Cost-effectiveness

Schools and Public Facilities

  • Safe and well-maintained schools

  • Community centers

  • Libraries

  • Recreation facilities

Infrastructure planning must include the buildings residents rely on.

  • Public safety facilities

  • Shared LCPS and county spaces

  • Capital planning that addresses older buildings as well as new construction

Loudoun’s future depends on whether the county plans ahead or continues reacting after problems appear.

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Jon will fight for infrastructure that serves residents, protects the environment, and keeps growth accountable.