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.
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