Downtown Washington businesses have a petition circulating online. The petition is in regards to the county’s work toward a proposed move of offices to the Orchard Hill Complex. The petition states, “We, the undersigned, are in support of our Washington County services remaining in the downtown of the county seat rather than being moved to new work space on the west edge of town at the Orchard Hill complex. We urge you to reconsider the primary architectural plans as they have been developed to date. Our businesses will likely lose customers from this major relocation plan, therefore we are not in support of such a move. We support the Federation Bank building use for these services.” Conversations about relocating certain county offices and renovating the Orchard Hill Complex have been a part of supervisor meetings since at least August of 2021.