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Fairfax City residents fed up with unwanted sound walls
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Neighbors in Fairfax City are fed up with sound walls in their backyards.
People in a Northern Virginia neighborhood are frustrated after construction on I-66 has left them with unexpected structures in their backyard.
The Mosby Woods neighborhood in Fairfax City is situated right next to the interstate. During the construction V-DOT has been replacing a noise wall that runs along the neighborhood but one homeowner has ended up with three very different looking walls in her yard. Of the three walls, none of them match, none of them connect. There’s a gap between each wall so both sound and people can get through the walls, Amanda Stamp, a homeowner in the neighborhood said.
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The official seal of the City of Fairfax includes the image of a Confederate soldier. (Michael O Connell/Patch)
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The City of Fairfax is steeped in history and reminders of the Civil War can be found everywhere. A Confederate soldier is present on the city s official seal. Travel four stoplights down Fairfax Boulevard from the empty alcove and you ll come to Plantation Parkway, the entrance to the Mosby Woods community. Developers in the 1960s named that neighborhood for John Singleton Mosby, a Confederate officer. Among the roads within Mosby Woods are Confederate Lane and Reb Street.
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In this alcove along Fairfax Boulevard used to sit The First Soldier of the South to Shed His Blood for the Confederacy, a monument dedicated in 1927 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. (Michael O Connell | Patch)
The official seal of the City of Fairfax includes the image of a Confederate soldier. (Michael O Connell/Patch)
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted in September to remove a Confederate monument from the grounds of the old Fairfax County Courthouse. (Mark Hand/Patch)
FAIRFAX CITY, VA In recent weeks, workers have been demolishing the vacant Travelodge on Fairfax Boulevard to make way for a new Wawa gas station. A stone wall separates the property from the sidewalk that runs along the road. At one point, the wall dips toward the demolished building and forms an alcove that sits empty except for a collection of leaves and debris.