City Council Meeting

Catherine Readthere are examples of where this has been done without this legislation Gilliam place in Arlington is housing built on top of the Arlington and in also in Arlington Goodwill is building housing above a brand new Goodwill store where they've taken down the entire building they own the property and they're building an entire building from scratch so even without this legislation there are examples in the region of where nonprofits and faith communities have built affordable housing on their property going through the zoning process I would also remind everyone that Glee view here in Fairfax city on the parking lot of the fairfax presbyterian church spent its first five years going through a rezoning process five years i believe there were five

CAPRA started out in Prince William County, now in Loudoun County. Metro Star started out here in Fairfax City. So although this was Virginia economic development, it was really about northern Virginia economic development. And so I just wanted to say we have a lot to offer. It's important to keep that top of mind that we, as a city, have so much to offer companies looking to relive faith here. So it was a great week with a lot of people doing very innovative things. I want to mention that Pastor Henry Britton of the Fairfax Presbyterian Church is retiring after 25 years. His last service will be this Sunday. I wanted to give a shout out to him and his commitment to the Glebe View project It did take five years to get it zoned to build ten townhouses