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Manassas delays vote on 28 new townhomes near industrial area
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.
The Manassas City Council announced Monday night that David Farajollahi, a Congressional liaison at the U.S. Geological Survey and local Democratic committee board member, will take Michelle Davis-Youngerâs seat when she becomes mayor in January.
The council canât formally vote on the selection until Davis-Younger is sworn in and her seat opens up Jan. 4, but the council made the decision in a closed session Dec. 9 after a two-part interview process with Farajollahi and the other applicants for the seat. Councilmembers decided to withhold on announcing the selection until Monday to allow for them to contact the other applicants.