Mark Miller

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Loudoun County Planning Commission · Planning Commission Public Hearing - May 26, 2026 · 26 May 2026 meeting

Okay, questions for the applicants?

Commissioner Miller.

Thank you.

To me, a 20-foot relatively solid wall made out of some concrete material is a prison wall.

And that will be seen, if this comes in 10 years, great, maybe.

I've seen lots of renderings where it'll look like in 10 or 15 years, and that's never the case in housing developments and wherever it may be.

Is there a way to break up the wall?

In other words, and I think we did this on Waxbow Road a couple, several years ago, where they wanted a 20-foot wall.

So we're like, can you do eight foot of berm with 12-foot wall on top of it?

It sounds like that this is 20 feet because it's a 500 KV line and there are security measures and rules that require it to be 20 feet.

Therefore, can that wall, instead of having...

20 foot solid straight up, can we have the berm, can we do something to offset the visual of 20 feet in front of it, more so than just plantings like this, but is there a way to architecturally design a berm?

Or, absent that,

Is there a way to work to split the wall, let's say, first 10 feet is the concrete we're used to and the press concrete or forms, or then go above the next 10 feet being some sort of metal mesh, unique patterns, something that differentiates it so as we're driving down Route 28, we don't see a prison wall?

Theoretically, we could put something on top of the retaining wall to help mitigate the mass of 20 feet so that it didn't appear to be just one solid 20-foot hole.

Something like that would be, and if what goes above that retaining wall were some sort of decorative mesh, Amico, I believe is the company, or...

an architecture firm that did some stuff like this in Minneapolis area around their substations that I've seen.

And it's just unique designs with metal mesh and things like that that helps offset and create movement within the visual aspect of it so we're not staring at a prison wall.

And I say this because

Look, most of us saw the meeting from last week.

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