Occoquan will soon enact an amplified outdoor sound permit which will allow residents and businesses to play music for outdoor events. The licenses enable sound to be audible at 50 feet beyond a property.
The town will require businesses to renew permits annually. The cost of the license will be $100.
The town has set hours when amplified outdoor sound will be prohibited, between 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and between 8 p.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday to Thursday. The permit program is scheduled to launch in Spring 2022.
In other town news, officials want more information from the developer of The Mill at Occoquan. The building is designed to be a five-story building located on Mill Street on the waterfront.
The Mill would feature 52 apartments and 7,000 square feet of office space which includes space for a restaurant with a terrace overlooking the Occoquan River. If The Mill is built, it would be the tallest and most prominent building in Occoquan.
An application for The Mill had been presented to the Architecture Review Board at its meeting on Sept. 28, 2021. The September meeting resulted in the board asking for more information from the applicant on a range of different topics concerning the project such as who would be in charge of maintaining planters boxes, the style of door for residential use and fire safety, placement of retail signage, and copper downspouts that were mentioned but weren't in the design.
The next meeting of the Occoquan Town Council is February 1 at the Occoquan Town Hall, at 314 Mill Street. When the Occoquan Town Council meetings were supposed to take place in January, they were canceled due to the recent snowstorms.
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Joined by Legacy Brass and members of Old
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The New Dominion Choraliers of Prince William County and McGrath Morgan Academy of Irish Dance invite you to join them at our Ceili, a grand celebration of Irish music and dance.
A gathering of performance groups throughout Prince William County
