Happy last day of September! As you make your weekend plans, there’s a good chance that youth sports could be delayed or canceled tomorrow morning due to wet fields – so if your morning is now free, join us and your neighbors for two events happening in the Little City tomorrow: Community Visioning […]
Happy Fall! We had a big weekend last week in the Little City, and we covered a lot of business in this week’s City Council work session too. Read on if you’re especially interested in economic development news (many interesting proposals and updates to various business openings). Take note of […]
While it was a light agenda of business in this week’s City Council meeting (but full of useful PSAs that I’ll share below), it was a momentous week in the Little City with Mt Daniel’s 2232 application approved by Fairfax County’s Planning Commission. It will also be big weekend with the Fall Festival/Taste of Falls Church […]
The kids are back in school, and we are back to work! I hope your first week of fall (even if the weather doesn’t feel like it yet) has been off to a great start. After our summer recess, City Council had an information-filled work session this week, including a detailed […]
As summer winds down, City Council met twice for its last two meetings of the summer this week. We voted on a number of important topics in our regular meeting on Monday, so if you’ve been following the Fellows property, revitalization districts, towing fees, or others that have been discussed […]
While City Council has only had one regular meeting since my last update, the past two weeks been packed with other City business. We had a joint dinner meeting with the City of Fairfax and Town of Vienna to celebrate the Solarize campaign and share learnings, a town hall meeting on the library […]
I hope your summer is going well and you’re staying cool. City Council had a combined regular meeting and work session agenda this week, with most of the high interest topics (Miller House, super penalties, GMHS, Bike Share) in the work session portion. While we’re in the dog days of summer – take note […]
We had a lengthy City Council meeting this week and covered several big topics, enough to tie us over until July 11th which is our next scheduled meeting. We are taking next week off due to the July 4th holiday, so there won’t be an email/blog post from me next week […]
This week’s content is especially pertinent especially if you are interested in the Community Visioning session last Saturday, are a patron of the library, or pay close attention to capital projects and the budget. Read on to find out more about how to provide input on the City’s vision and the […]
We covered many important items in this week’s City Council meeting, and I also joined the Housing Commission and Arts and Humanities Council meetings, the kickoff of the Streetscape Task Force, and a neighborhood meeting about the new submission of the Mt. Daniel project. Some of you may have seen the […]
It was a busy week of City business and this week’s lengthy updates reflects that. It should interest a wide variety of folks, including many topics that are critical to the planning of the future of the City. Read on for latest updates on upcoming park renovations, GMHS campus planning, economic […]
I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend and short week. Falls Church kicked off summer and honored our fallen veterans with some of my favorite Little City annual traditions – the Fun Run, Veterans Ceremony, and the annual Memorial Day parade. My kids and I also marched in our first parade this […]