From: "Stinger" <stinger@loudounwireless.com>

To: <Sarah_Stinger@URSCorp.com>

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009 02:41PM

Subject: Fw: FOIA - Wheatland School Traffic Information

----- Original Message -----From: Zeller, James C., P.E.To: StingerCc: Bigdeli, Farid, P.E.Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 11:10 AMSubject: RE: FOIA - Wheatland School Traffic Information

Dear Ms. Stinger,

Thank you for your email of May 3, 2009 regarding proposed schools in the Wheatland area. In your email, you requestedinformation regarding any VDOT input on the proposed schools and information regarding VDOT policies on entrances andaccess roads. You also suggested VDOT staff may have provided input on a potential school site located near the n orthedge of the Town of Lovettsville.

I checked with VDOT staff who oversees land development and traffic engineering issues in Loudoun County and with Mr.Farid Bigdeli, VDOT's Transportation Manager for Loudoun County about your inquiry and learned th at none of them havehad any involvement to date regarding school sites in the Wheatland area or north of Lovettsville. If you could provide methe contact information of th e public official with which you spoke I could find out who at VDOT gave that official inputregarding the site north of Lovettsville. I must point out that VDOT does not act on proposed land uses. Action on proposedland uses are granted by the applicable local governments.

Regarding entrances and access roads, I am attaching for your use links to the VDOT web site that contain our policies onentrances and access management. These policy documents include procedures for waiving or modifying the policies.

This is the link for VDOT's Minimum Standards Of Entrances To State Highways. An entrance for a school would beconsidered a Commercial Entrance.http://www.virginiadot.org/business/resources/minimum-standards-of-entrances.pdf

This is the link to VDOT's Access Management policies. They are found in Appendix F of the Road Design Manual.http://www.virginiadot.org/business/locdes/rdmanual-index.asp

Please do not hesitate to call or email me if you need anything else.

James C. Zeller, PEVirginia Department of Transportation41 Lawson Road, SELeesburg, Virginia 20175-4460

tel 703-737-2014cell 571-722-6381fax 703-771-2528

From: Stinger [mailto:stinger@loudounwireless.com]Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:47 AMTo: Zeller, James C., P.E.

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Subject: FOIA - Wheatland School Traffic Information

Mr. Zeller,Can you please provide any information you have, including VDOT opinions/referrals, on Loudoun County Public Schools'recent proposal for a 4,000 student 3-school complex (elementary, middle and high) to be located at the northwest (highschool) and northeast (middle and elementary schools) corners of John Wolford Road and Rte 287? At the communitymeeting last week, Dr. Adamo stated ~60 busses for middle/high schools will traverse 287 to load/unload and ~30 would beneeded for the elementary students.

I was told by a public official that VDOT would not approve a school sited on a 100-acre assemblage (Engle/Shoene) on thenorth edge of Lovettsville, with access points on Broad Way on the west side of Town via a new road being constructed toaccess a new post office and on the east side of town via Lovettsville Road by the cemetary.

What is VDOT's requirement for school entrances/access roads? Are waivers ever issued due to hardship finding siteswhich comply with VDOT requirements.

Thank you for any informationSincerely,Sarah Stinger

----- Original Message -----From: Zeller, James C., P.E.To: stinger@loudounwireless.comCc: Walker, Edie F. ; Pauley, Jerry ; Bigdeli, Farid, P.E. ; VanPoole, Thomas B., P.E. ; Walker, TomSent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:50 PMSubject: Request for Information - Coordination with Loudoun County Public Schools and Traffic Counts inNorthwestern Loudoun County

Dear Ms. Stinger,

This is in response to your email request of June 17 for information on the above referenced subject matter. By way ofintroduction, I manage VDOT ’ s improvement program here in Loudoun County. That is roadway improvements in thecounty that are funded and/or built by VDOT.

Your request has several components to it so I will reproduce each part of your request and answer it in turn:

Question: “ In recent weeks ago we noticed several people doing traffic counts at intersections in and around Purcellville,along 287 north of Route 9 and Bypass Route 7. Do you have any knowledge of VDOT conducting or contracting such astudy or others who might have? ”

Answer: Attached for your use are two emails from Mr. Jerry Pauley of VDOT ’ s Traffic Engineering Division in Chantillythat describes counts undertaken by VDOT over the last few months.

<<RE: FOIA #1388 - Request for Information-Stinger>> <<287 counts.xls>>

Question: “ I would like all available information, including meeting notes, with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS)staff regarding evaluation of access roads to proposed high school or middle school sites in Loudoun County north ofRoute 9. I am particularly interested in notes from a meeting with LCPS staff on March 20, 2006 attended by VDOT staff(Farid Bigdeli, Tom Van Poole, and Jim Zeller) and subsequent meetings with respect to proposed alignments for aLovettsville area school site. My request is not limited to this specific meeting but that is a good starting point. I havereceived LCPS' 2 page meeting notes from that meeting which refer to a future scoping meeting to be conducted, butLCPS states they have no additional information. ”

Answer: Attached for your use are my notes from the March 20 meeting and email exchanges from Mr. Van Poole. Mr.Bigdeli informed me he did not keep notes from that meeting . I am also attaching an email from Mr. Tom Walker ofVDOT ’ s Land Development Division in Chantilly who was present at the March 20 meeting. Regarding “ subsequentmeetings I am attaching email from Mr. Walker regarding a meeting with LCPS staff on August 2, 2007 and my notes fromthat meeting:

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<<RE: FOIA #1388 - Request for Information-Stinger>> <<more lovettsville hs email>> <<WLoudounHSMtg3-20-06_JCZNotes.pdf>> <<RE: FOIA #1388 - Request for Information-Stinger>> <<Miller Site>> <<Re: Miller Site>><<WLoudounHSMtg8-2-07_JCZNotes.pdf>>

Question: “ This request includes information for any other VDOT-required access roads/upgrades to serve future schoolsin western Loudoun, particularly any in areas of Wheatland, Hillsboro, Waterford and Lovettsville. ”

Answer: Most of this involves coordination with LCPS on the proposed Woodgrove High School outside Purcellvilleregarding proposed intersection improvements near the Town of Hillsboro. Here are my notes from a coordinationmeeting with LCPS staff on July 26, 2006 and related emails:

<<WLoudounHSMtg7-26-06_JCZNotes.pdf>> <<RE: Access to a High School Site in Lovettsville>> <<RE: Access to aHigh School Site in Lovettsville>> <<RE: Access to a High School Site in Lovettsville>> <<Western Loudoun County HSIntersection Improvements>> <<RE: Western Loudoun County HS Intersection Improvements>> <<FW: Western LoudounHigh School Intersection Improvements>> <<FW: Western Loudoun High School Intersection Improvements>> <<Fwd:Fields Farm HS transportation questions>> <<W. Loudoun County HS Intersection Improvements>> <<RE: W. LoudounCounty HS Intersection Improvements>>

The only other records I have regarding your request consists of a Nov. 6, 2006 telephone call from Mr. Scott Dunn ofTimmons Group, civil engineers for LCPS, regarding the use of VDOT ’ s Rural Rustic Road standards to improve Route694 John Wolford Road in order to provide access to a proposed school site that fronts on Route 611 Purcellville Road.There was a second telephone call on Nov. 13, 2006 with Mr. Warren Rust of Timmons regarding the same thing. I haveno further notes of the phone calls but they had to do with required roadway widths, right of way issues and therelationship to VDOT ’ s recently completed improvements to John Wolford Road.

I trust this answers your question. If you need anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me.

James C. Zeller, PEVirginia Department of Transportation41 Lawson Road, SELeesburg, Virginia 20175-4460

tel 703-737-2014cell 571-722-6381fax 703-771-2528

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