Manassas approves rezoning for new townhomes next to elementary school
Updated at January 14, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Farajollahi
A Manassas City elementary school will soon have some new neighbors.
On Monday, January 11, the City Council voted to rezone 10 acres of land next to George C. Round Elementary School, at the corner of Godwin and Hastings drives, clearing the way for 28 new townhomes that should sell for as much as $600,000 each.
A single-family home owned by Micheal Vanderpool, a prominent lawyer in the city who personally lobbied for the rezoning, will be demolished to make way for the new homes.
The City Council approved the measure in a 5-1 vote, with newly-seated councilman Tom Osina as the lone voice who opposed the project. Osina said the community wants to see single-family homes built in this area, not townhomes.
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A total of 28 new townhomes are proposed to be built at the corner of Godwin and Hastings drives, next to George C. Round Elementary School. The development, called Kings Landing, would sit on property owned by Micheal Vanderpool, a prominent land-use and development lawyer in the region.
On December 14, 2020, Vanderpool spent an hour lobbying the City Council on the new development’s perceived plusses, such as providing new housing for established families that would soon move to the city with the nearby expansion Micron microchip manufacturing facility. Micron is slated to bring 1,100 high-paying jobs to the city within the next eight years.
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Michael Vanderpool, a prominent Manassas lawyer, spent about an hour before the Manassas City Council trying to sell the idea of building 28 new townhomes on 10 acres of his land.
Vanderpool, 70, told city leaders on Tuesday, December 14, that he raised his children in the two-story home that sits on the property at 10201 Godwin Drive, and it would now make a good home for other families.
He’s pushing the City Council to rezone his land from a lower density designation that would require single-family homes to build on the property to a mid-density classification that would allow new townhomes at the corner of Godwin and Hastings drive, next to George C. Round Elementary School.
Agenda for the week of December 13
Updated at December 14, 2020 - Uriah Kiser
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The City Council will take up a measure to asking it to approve the
rezoning of a property on five acres of land, at the intersection of Hasting and Godwin drives, next to George C. Round Elementary School, that would clear the way for 28 new townhomes.
The governing body is also set to honor the city’s long-serving mayor,
Hal Parrish II, who has been on the city council since 1993.
Parrish decided in February not to see reelection to the City Council, where he served as mayor since 2008. He will be preceded by the city’s first black, first female mayor, Michele Davis Younger.