Phil Rodenberg, who spoke to club members at their July meeting, listed a number of improvements to the neighborhood since he became general manager in September 2011 and promised that more are on the way.
“I’m hope you’ll agree with me that the new front entrance is a great improvement,” he said. “It’s important because it’s your doorstep. It’s the first impressions we give visitors when they enter.”
Rodenberg also cited improvements to the small marina, fencing along Flat Run Road and paving and ditching of LOW roads as recent accomplishments.
Coming up soon, he said, is a renovation of the Holcomb Building to allow member to do business there on the ground floor, rather than having to climb stairs to the upper level. He said that project will get under way within a few days and is expected to be complete by the association’s annual meeting Sept. 2.
The general manager said a new, more efficient and less costly system to irrigate the golf course will be undertaken in the next year.
Rodenberg said it is important, as the largest residential area along Route 3, that LOW be involved in the county’s long-range planning for the Route 3 corridor.
“Anything that is done in that area should compliment who we are as a community,” he said. “We have a strong interest in whatever is planned for that area.”
Rodenberg, 52, was city manager of Fredericksburg before being hired by LOW two years ago. He was previously deputy town manager of Leesburg.