Following unanimous Planning Commission approval, the Falls Church City Council will undoubtedly approve on Monday the purchase for $629,000 of a residential lot on S. Lee Street that it will designate for use as a portal into the undeveloped Hamlett-Rees parkland property behind it. It will also probably respond to appeals from residential neighbors to the property the way the Planning Commission did this Monday. $629,000 is equal to more than two cents on the residential real estate tax rate.
(more…)