The Reserve at Long Forest won approval from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
The new homes in the cluster development will be built behind Signal Hill Elementary School, in the county, between the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
A political action committee funded by George Soros has given $50,000 to a candidate for sheriff in Prince William County, the latest in a string of contributions by the Democratic megadonor aimed at pushing criminal justice reform in Northern Virginia.
Prince William County Voting Registrar Michele White said she can’t afford to pay poll workers across five Saturdays leading up to Election Day, November 5, to allow people to cast an absentee ballot (AB).
But, the county’s Democrat-controlled Electoral Board says they’ll keep them as planned [Prince William Times].
They don’t often vote together on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, but the issue of preserving the Rural Crescent brought them together Monday at Stonewall Jackson Senior High School.
Supervisors Jeanine Lawson (R-Brentsville), Frank Principi (D-Woodbridge), and Peter Candland (R-Gainesville) denounced a plan by county staff to create a transition ribbon, where about 10,000 new homes could be built along the boundary of the Rural Crescent.
It’s called a Purchase of Development Rights Program (PDR) where the government buys a farmer’s land, then leaves it in the hands of the farmer who can continue to use it for agriculture, but can never build on it, or sell it to anyone else.
A newly proposed resolution from Prince William County School Board members Alyson Satterwhite and Willie Deutsch rules out four of six viable alternatives to developing the Rural Crescent, the last remaining, largely rural, crescent-shaped tract of land from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
On Tuesday, the Board of County Supervisors ordered a new policy meant to govern the use of small aircraft, commonly used for photography, to be reworked.
Board Chairman At-large Corey Stewart and others feared that a county employee using a drone could inadvertently capture footage of a zoning violation, submit the video to the zoning department for review, and land the property owner in hot water.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors was briefed on how the county could meet the growing demand for affordable housing over the next 10 years. Several supervisors took umbrage, arguing that the region did not have the resources or necessity to plan for more affordable homes.
Paul DesJardin, director of community planning services for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), and Rebecca Horner, director of planning for Prince William County, presented housing “aspirations” for the county based on estimates of public need and demand.
That’s the term commonly used to refer to local prosecutors deciding whether or not to pursue cases of people charged minor infractions like littering, or trespassing, or possession of small amounts of marijuana.
“You’re not electing a king or queen who gets to decide what to prosecute. You follow the law,” said May, a Republican whose making his second run to be Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney.
The Board of County Supervisors for the first time Tuesday heard a proposal to give about 1,000 full-time employees a 4% raise. Another 627 part-time employees who work for the parks and rec department will also get a raise.
It’s going to cost about $5 million to carry out, and the pay raises would be phased in over two years.
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