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.
Lateef, the Prince William County School Board Chairman, At-large was not shy of saying the names of fellow Democrats also running for the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, the taxing authority that provides funding for the schools. He’s led the School Board overseeing Virginia’s second-largest school system in Prince William County for the past 16 months.
“We need more funding from the Board of County Supervisors and we’re not getting it due to Jeanine Lawson (sitting Brentsville District rep) and Ruth Anderson (sitting Occoquan District rep) who are not committed to our classrooms,” he said at Wednesday night’s Prince William Committee of 100 / League of Women Voters voter forum in Manassas.
After a six-hour marathon meeting, the Stafford County School Board passed employee and student non-discrimination policies one year after a transgender student was barred from using a bathroom facility.
Questions remain, however, as to how these policies will be implemented, as they do not specifically address transgender bathroom usage.
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.
The signs erected at — you guessed it — bus stops, will be placed at stops across the county, and at stops in Arlington and Washington, D.C.
The featured photo in this post shows an example of a new bus stop sign that’s sitting in an OmniRide office. The new signs are expected to make their debut first in western Prince William County in January.
If the Mathis Avenue corridor is going to change, so may traffic patterns need to change on Route 28.
Manassas officials are have dusted off the more than a decade old Mathis Avenue Sector Plan and are starting to make streetscape improvements in the neighborhood that mirror similar efforts in the city’s downtown.
The Department of Homeland Security came to Gainesville to help hotel employees learn how to recognize potential sex trafficking victims.
They gathered at a Hampton Inn as part of DHS’ Blue Campaign, ‘the unified voice for DHS’ efforts to combat human trafficking which involves law enforcement, government, non-governmental, and private organizations to protect the basic right of freedom and bring those who exploit human lives to justice.”
It’s been two years since the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a lifetime dog license, meaning that dog owners would now only need to purchase the license once vs. an annual option, or what had been a more popular three-year license.
Starting Nov. 1, 2017, the county began offering the lifetime license and since then has issued 9,375-lifetime licenses, according to Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy. Now it’s the only type of dog license it issues.
