By Brian Trompeter
Community Task Force to Seek Ways to Protect Stream Valley in Tysons: Supervisor Walter Alcorn (D-Hunter Mill) announced at the July 25 Board of Supervisors meeting that he was creating a community-led task force to develop high-level strategies to preserve and enhance a stream valley in Tysons.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County supervisors on July 25 unanimously approved a developer’s request to build a multi-family residential building instead of an approved office tower at 8401 Greensboro Drive.
By Brian Trompeter
Citing “persistent staffing shortages and equipment challenges,” the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES) is proposing to eliminate collection of containerized (i.e., dumpster) trash and recycling pickups at county agencies effective Oct. 1 – and perhaps stop vacuum leaf-collection services in nine residential areas as well.
By Brian Trompeter
The Vienna Volunteer Fire Department periodically conducts training exercises at homes in the community that are scheduled for demolition, but July 19 drills at 102 Oak St., S.W., carried extra significance.
By Brian Trompeter
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed July 11 to reduce by an overall 29 percent the amount of parking required at a major redevelopment near the West Falls Church Metrorail station.
By Brian Trompeter
A small, but significant, piece of the development puzzle near the West Falls Church Metrorail station received a unanimous support July 12 from the Fairfax County Planning Commission.
By Brian Trompeter
Eight candidates – including three incumbents and five challengers with a wide array of experience – will vie Nov. 7 for six available Vienna Town Council seats.
By Brian Trompeter
Citing higher legal-overhead costs and more staff time needed to review police body-worn-camera video footage, Vienna Town Council members on July 10 unanimously agreed to spend 15 percent more on the town’s legal services.
By Brian Trompeter
Residents who spoke at July 10 and 12 public hearings on Code Create Vienna, the town’s biggest comprehensive zoning-ordinance rewrite since 1969, told Vienna Town Council and Planning Commission members they wanted better tree preservation, more affordable (or at least not as astronomically priced) housing, darker night skies and the conversion of a former Beulah Road mulching site into park space.
By Brian Trompeter
The McLean Citizens Association (MCA) board of directors passed a resolution July 5 supporting a proposed office-to-residential conversion in Tysons, but reiterated its concern that such projects adversely could impact school enrollment and demand for public services.
