Manassas City Public Schools is abandoning a tentative plan to renovate and move its central office staff into the current Manassas police headquarters once the…
Manassas homeowner at odds with city over drainage issue Epstein s backyard at her home on Ponderosa Pine Court in Manassas.
A Manassas resident and the city government are at odds over a drainage issue in the Wellington neighborhood.
At Rachel Epstein’s house, the ground is continuously soggy. After it rains, mold, mildew, and bugs are a constant problem, she says.
She has lived in the 10100 block of Ponderosa Pine Court for the past seven years, and water isn’t draining properly from her yard.
She did some digging and learned that, when her house was built in 1991, French Drains were installed on the property to help whisk water away.
Work on $11.1M project to shrink Grant Avenue to begin in March A view of Grant Avenue traffic on August 28, 2019. [Submitted]
Manassas is moving forward with a plan to shrink a street.
Crews will remove two lanes of traffic from Grant Avenue in the city’s downtown neighborhood, reducing the street’s capacity from four to two lanes, between Prince William Street and Wellington Road.
Work on the $11.1 million project–dubbed a “road diet”–to relocate electrical lines and other utilities, which must be complete before road construction begins, is scheduled to start in March, Deputy City Manager Bryan Foster told the City Council at a special meeting over the weekend.