November 24, 2024
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Tag: Gross

Gross opens campaign office in Annandale

#elections, #Gross, #politics
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Penny Gross speaks to supporters at her campaign office. “I intend to win; I intend to win big,” Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross told supporters at the opening of her re-election campaign headquarters April 22. Dozens of local residents came to Gross’ campaign office, located in the former Healthway store on John Marr Drive in … Continued

Gross outlines vision for community school at Willston Center

#Gross, #land use, #Loeffler, #redevelopment, #schools, #Seven Corners, #Swanson, #Willston Center
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The main entrance to the Willston Center. Mason Supervisor Penny Gross has outlined a vision for a school at the Willston Multicultural Center that would be attached to a building providing a variety of community services. In her “A Penny for Your Thoughts” column published in the Falls Church News-Press April 16, Gross said she … Continued

Sharpshooters take down seven deer at Green Spring Gardens

#animals, #Gross, #neighborhood groups, #pets, #wildlife
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Deer at Green Spring Gardens. Fifty deer were killed in Mason District parks during the 2014-15 season, including seven shot by sharpshooters at Green Spring Gardens, says Katherine Edwards, the wildlife management specialist for Fairfax County. Archers using crossbows were responsible for the rest. Edwards gave a presentation at the third and final installment of … Continued

Spectrum shopping center goes back to the drawing board

#Bailey's Crossroads, #Board of Supervisors, #Gross, #land use, #redevelopment, #shopping, #zoning
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted March 24 to “defer indefinitely” the rezoning application for the proposed Spectrum shopping center on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads. Following many discussions with the community and the developer, “we asked the developer to go back to the drawing board and rework the plan for the shopping center,” … Continued

Painful funding cuts outlined at Mason Budget Town Hall

#budget, #government services, #Gross, #schools, #social services, #taxes
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 From the left: Mason Supervisor Penny Gross, school board member Sandy Evans, and County Executive Ed Long. Of all the funding cuts in the Fairfax County advertised budget for 2016, one will hit some Annandale families especially hard: The budget would terminate the Annandale Adult Day Care Center located in the former Annandale Elementary School … Continued

Board of Supervisors defers vote on Spectrum shopping center

#Bailey's Crossroads, #Board of Supervisors, #Gross, #land use, #neighborhood groups, #redevelopment, #shopping
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“Lot 8,” the home of Concetta Difalco, whose family opposes the Spectrum development. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a motion March 3 to defer a decision on the Spectrum shopping center proposal until March 24. The project, to be built by Spectrum Development, would be on a 2.7-acre property on Leesburg Pike between … Continued

Gross considering having all of Mason covered by a Community Parking District

#cars, #Gross, #neighborhood groups, #parking, #police, #transportation
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Boats like this one on Terrace Drive in Annandale would be banned in a Community Parking District. Mason Supervisor Penny Gross plans to decide by this summer whether to go forward with a proposal to create a Community Parking District (CPD) to cover the entire Mason District. Within a CPD, boats, motor homes, campers, trailers, … Continued

Gross supports community school concept

#Gross, #land use, #Mason District, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #transportation
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Ernie Wells looks at maps of proposed Seven Corners redevelopment concepts at a community meeting at Bailey’s Elementary School. Mason Supervisor Penny Gross told the audience at a community meeting on Seven Corners redevelopment Feb. 19 that she supports the concept of a community school and that the Willston Center is a possible a location. … Continued

Aaron Frank leaving Gross’ office

#Gross, #land use
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Aaron Frank, the land use and development specialist in Mason Supervisor Penny Gross’ office, is moving on. Frank, who’s been at Gross’ office since October 2010, is relocating to Phoenix at the end of the month to be with his fiancé and finish a master’s degree. “It’s time for the next chapter in many areas … Continued

Gross encourages property owners to remove unwanted donation boxes

#business, #Gross, #land use, #litter, #property maintenance, #zoning
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A donation in a corner of the Choong Hwa Woon restaurant on John Marr Drive in Annandale. Concerned about the proliferation of donation drop-off boxes sprouting up all over privately owned parking lots, Mason District SupervisorPenny Gross has written to commercial property owners advising that they have the right to remove boxes that have been … Continued