City of Falls Church officials are picking the wrong time to, proverbially speaking, shoot their residential property owner constituency in its collective foot. A patently absurd and unnecessary encroachment on personal property rights and values is nearing approval by the City Council. It would restrict the amount of the land any property owner has that could be covered by a combination of a house, garage, deck, driveway, patio or other structure to only 30% of the total. Right now, Falls Church law restricts that percentage to 35%, one of the most restrictive limits in the state, but that is not enough for the ideologically-obsessed social engineers at City Hall.
