Frankly, we are impressed by the willingness of the new Falls Church City Council to pull back from a bad idea and head back to the drawing board. That’s what it did Monday night, when it decided to pull off the table a component of sweeping residential zoning changes that would have, in the opinion of many, deprived citizens of property rights. It had to do with the disposition of so-called “sub-standard lots.” The Council was ready to severely restrict their potential development, and now, according to Mayor Robin Gardner, that component of the zoning reform package will undergo “substantial changes."
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