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December 08 SCA MInutes

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Information from your
Neighborhood Watch.

Prospective Neighborhood Watch Committee Members, click here for more information!

This is an ideal way to become qualified to serve on the Watch Committee!!

Forum to discuss “Healthy Watersheds, Healthier Communities”

Our area watersheds, including Belle Haven, Dogue Creek and Four Mile Run, are continuing to degrade and erode, causing impacts to property values, flooding, and water contamination. In response, the stormwater planning division of Fairfax County is working with local communities to address the protection and restoration of area streams and other water resources. Please plan to attend their free workshop on January 14 at Huntley Meadows Park. For more information see letter here.

Note From the Editors

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December 2008 SCA Meeting Minutes

Message from Supervisor McKay

Implementing a Large Area Community Parking District in Lee

Large trucks, boats, and recreational vehicles that park on neighborhood streets have long featured in the hit parade of community complaints. Until recently, communities wishing to restrict these vehicles from parking on their residential streets had to go through a lengthy and cumbersome process to get a Community Parking District (CPD) for specific streets in their area. The law of unintended consequences was often alive and well, with the end result likely to move the vehicles to another community just a few streets away.

Last March, the Board of Supervisors approved a pilot program in Mount Vernon District. This program created a large area CPD covering the entire district. Unlike a traditional CPD, the streamlined process did not require a citizen petition. Six months after the CPD was instituted, the Board of Supervisors received a successful status report; as a result every Fairfax County district now has the option of implementing this program.

These are the types of vehicles that would be prohibited from parking on residential streets in a district-wide CPD:

Boat trailer
Watercraft
Motor home
Camping trailer
Trailer or semi-trailer, even if attached to a vehicle
Vehicle with three or more axles
Vehicle weighing 12,000 pounds or more
Vehicle transporting 16 or more passengers (except school busses)

January 28 Community Meeting

There are definite advantages and disadvantages to a district-wide parking restriction and this is a decision that should be made by the Lee District community only after careful review

There will be a presentation on this topic at the January 28 meeting of the Lee District Association of civic organizations. This meeting is open to the public and I encourage you to attend. The meeting will take place at 7:30 pm in the community room of the Franconia Governmental Center at 6121 Franconia Road. In addition to a presentation by the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, there will be a Q & A session.
If you cannot attend the meeting or have questions, please contact my office by phone at 703-971-6262 or email at .