The Seal of Fairfax County Hangs over the entrance to the Government Center. The building where the County Board meets along with other services. Image by Fairfax County.
Fairfax County may be swapping out some of its extra parking space at the Fairfax County Government Center for affordable housing. You’ll soon have a chance to tell the board what you think.
Braddock District Supervisor James Walkinshaw brought up the idea at a county board meeting back in October. He offered a motion that the county board authorize a hearing on allowing the county to transfer ownership of parking lots G and H at the Fairfax County Government Center to the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority (FCRHA). Then they’d work with the county and developers to replace the parking lots with affordable housing. The Government Center is in the Braddock District’s western edge. The move would open up about three and a half acres for development along Government Center Parkway for committe
December 10, 2020 at 1:15pm
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors met with the Fairfax County History Commission on Tuesday to discuss Confederate associated street and place names across the county.
This project began after the June 23 and July 7 board meetings, where the commission set out to create an inventory of Confederate places and structures within the county following the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of George Floyd.
After identifying more than 26,000 streets and places in a report, the board narrowed the focus list to 650 well-known Confederate Officers and locally-known Confederates. After researching those names, the Commission found 150 assets to have confirmed Confederate associated names, according to the presentation by Anne Stuntz, the chairwoman of the History Commission.