Lansdowne Conservancy

About Lansdowne Conservancy

Our Mission

The Lansdowne Conservancy is a governing body that oversees the Lansdowne community in Virginia. It ensures controlled development, maintains design standards, and enforces covenants to preserve the beauty and property values of the area. The Conservancy is responsible for the upkeep of all public spaces within the community.The Lansdowne Conservancy governs Lansdowne through a board of directors with representatives from all the homeowners associations, INOVA Hospital and the other entities located here. Its primary role is to ensure controlled development and design standards as well as enforcement of covenants to maintain the beauty of the community and its property values. The Conservancy is responsible for maintenance of all public spaces within the community.

Meetings & Update

3/12/2025

Loudoun Times-Mirror

https://www.loudountimes.com/0local-or-not/1local/lansdowne-conservancy-and-loudoun-county-appeal-dominion-energys-power-line-project/article_222ff628-ff3f-11ef-b572-dfdb3d029eff.html

Event Details

3/12/2025

Loudoun Times-Mirror

Lansdowne Conservancy and Loudoun County appeal Dominion Energy's power line project

https://www.loudountimes.com/0local-or-not/1local/lansdowne-conservancy-and-loudoun-county-appeal-dominion-energys-power-line-project/article_222ff628-ff3f-11ef-b572-dfdb3d029eff.html

6/11/2024

Community Meeting on Transmission Lines

7pm

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9pm

https://www.pecva.org/event/community-meeting-on-transmission-lines/

Event Details

6/11/2024

Community Meeting on Transmission Lines

Join Lansdowne Conservancy, the Loudoun Transmission Line Alliance and The Piedmont Environmental Council for a community meeting on transm...

Event Details

7pm

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9pm

https://www.pecva.org/event/community-meeting-on-transmission-lines/

11/03/2023

Lansdowne Residents Decry Dominion’s Rt. 7 Power Line Project

7pm

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10pm

https://www.loudounnow.com/news/lansdowne-residents-decry-dominion-s-rt-7-power-line-project/article_96ee4c24-7a8b-11ee-b590-2fc89e51dd8c.html

Event Details

11/03/2023

Lansdowne Residents Decry Dominion’s Rt. 7 Power Line Project

A crowd of nearly 300 Lansdowne residents gathered at the National Conference Center on NOv. 2 to learn more about Dominion Energy’s stud...

Event Details

7pm

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10pm

https://www.loudounnow.com/news/lansdowne-residents-decry-dominion-s-rt-7-power-line-project/article_96ee4c24-7a8b-11ee-b590-2fc89e51dd8c.html

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at info@lansdowneconservancy.org if you cannot find an answer to your question.

What is the Lansdowne Conservancy?

The Lansdowne Conservancy is the overarching property owner’s association that is comprised of all of the property owners and Sub Associations in Lansdowne. These include the six Lansdowne Woods Condo Associations, Cadence HOA, and Vistas HOA and two large Residential developments – Lansdowne on the Potomac HOA and Lansdowne Village Green HOA. Also included is the Lansdowne Resort, Inova Loudoun Hospital, The National Conference Center, the Saul Centers Shopping Center, Camden Apartments, all office buildings and other smaller HOA’s and Commercial and Office Condominiums.

Lansdowne as a development started in the 1970s by Xerox Corporation when it created the Xerox Training Center (Now the National Conference Center). Xerox originally rezoned the entire 2,267-acre development as a “Corporate Center” and the original plan contained no residential areas of development. Over the years until today numerous rezonings and changes occurred resulting in the development of Residential, Senior, Recreational, Educational, Commercial and other types of developments. Each new development required an amendment to the then existing Declarations and the creation of new Declarations and SubAssociations which govern the new types of development under the umbrella of the Conservancy Declaration. The creation of all newly created developments required their members and Lot Owners to be members of the Conservancy and subject to its jurisdiction.

Who are the Members of the Conservancy?

Every Lot Owner in the Conservancy is required to be and is a member of the Conservancy and is governed by the Lansdowne Conservancy Board of Directors. In Lansdowne Woods, the Condominium is deemed to be the member of the Conservancy as a Lot Owner, and the unit owners who own their condominium units are not technically members of the Conservancy, but they are legally entitled to attend meetings of the Board of Directors and are legally qualified to be elected to the Conservancy Board of Directors if designated by their Condominium’s Board of Directors. The condominium unit owners do have the right to elect their own condominium’s Board of Directors pursuant to their own Condominium Documents.

What is the Conservancy's responsibility to the community?

The Lansdowne Conservancy is authorized and required to oversee the conduct and use of the Lansdowne Community and in part to use its legal authority to assure “visual harmony and soundness” of all development in the community; to “avoid activities deleterious to the aesthetic or property values;” and to “promote the general welfare and safety of” the owners of property in Lansdowne. It also serves to ensure compliance to deed restrictions enacted to protect the community. In some ways the Conservancy is similar to a Municipal Corporation such as the Towns that exist in Loudoun County. The SubAssociations take care and govern the activities of their individual developments and have adopted rules and regulations pertinent to their constituents. They all have architectural and development covenants that have been approved by the Conservancy and those covenants are enforced by the individual SubAssociations. The Conservancy has the right and obligation to enforce the Subassociation’s covenants if the SubAssociation fails to act.

The Conservancy also has responsibility for maintenance of the existing landscaping along the public roads in the development as well as signage.

The most important task for the Conservancy is to review new land use development applications as they are presented to the County and to the Conservancy to assure compliance with the Conservancy’s Development and Architectural Guidelines and Covenants.

What is the Governing Body that makes decisions about the Conservancy?

The Governing Body of the Conservancy is the Board of Directors of the Conservancy. It has the power to make all decisions concerning the operations, maintenance, performance, and compliance with the Governing Documents, laws and regulations that pertain to the Conservancy. The Board of Directors are also members of the Conservancy’s Covenants Committee which reviews and determines whether to approve or deny land use applications, and it relies on a Professional Review Sub Committee (PRSC) that reviews and makes recommendations to the Covenants Committee.