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Manassas mayor orders all City Council meetings to be held online
Updated at January 27, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Davis-Younger
Nearly a year into the pandemic and the Manassas City Council says it’s done holding meetings in public.
In one of her first actions as mayor, Michelle Davis-Younger told residents Monday night that starting on Monday, February 8, all City Council meetings will be held virtually.
The move comes as the city erected plexiglass barriers to separate council members, who are already wearing masks to protect themselves from the virus. City officials had been limiting the number of residents who could sit inside the council chambers to view its elected officials in action.
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.