This week’s update will be a little different. While we covered several important topics in City meetings (I’ll still do a quick recap) – given that half of City Council traveled to Richmond mid week for a day of lobbying, I’ll also share my thoughts on the workings of the General […]
After last week’s light agenda, our City Council work session this week was packed with several meaty topics – traffic calming, streetscape standards, Fairfax Water storage tank, and financial policies. Also, you may be hearing of plans to redevelop Merrill House, which was a high level topic in this week’s EDC meeting (Economic Development […]
We had a light City Council meeting agenda this week, but it ended up being a busy week full of other meetings with interesting topics that I’ll highlight below, including the latest from the GMHS working group. If you’re in town for the upcoming long weekend, I hope you’ll consider […]
Happy new year! I hope your 2017 is off to a good start. City Council business resumed officially this week, with most of our meeting focused on a joint work session with the School Board on GMHS. Read on for my take on where we are, the options on the […]
Over the past year, I’ve fielded variations of questions around “why is my tax rate so high?” and “how does all of this development help my taxes?” So as a precursor to the upcoming budget season, I thought it would be useful to put my take on these questions into its own […]