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Kevin Ramundo Elected President of Citizens for Fauquier County

Citizens for Fauquier County, Fauquier’s oldest conservation nonprofit, begins the new year with Kevin Ramundo as president succeeding Le...

Planning Commission Opens the Door to Special Use Permits in Commercial District

The Warrenton Planning Commission indicated Tuesday that it was open to using a special use permit (SUP) for the conversion of commercial...

What’s the Rush?

By Christopher Bonner Easily the most consequential zoning in Warrenton’s history, an under-the-radar zoning amendment to allow residenti...

Warrenton Planning Commission Rushes Hearing on New Housing Developments

A rulemaking that would increase the town's population by allowing five housing units per acre on commercial land is the subject of a pu...

Draft Zoning Amendment, Explained

Conceptually, the idea of building residential units on an empty commercial space is an attractive idea. The problem is, it hasn’t been t...

High Horsepower: Harnessing the Equine Economy

Virginia is for horses. Maybe that’s not how you’ve heard it, but considering the equine industry’s economic impact in the Old Dominion...

Tall Buildings, More Cars, Higher Taxes: New Comp Plan Has Big Changes for Warrenton

By Chris Bonner The wildly unpopular Warrenton Comprehensive Plan will change Warrenton, and that change will be forever. Population will...

Comprehensive Plan Threatens Warrenton's Water Resources

The proposed Warrenton Comprehensive Plan threatens the town’s reliable daily water supply with an aggressive 50 percent population growt...

Buy Fresh Buy Local

During these unprecedented times of people not being able to get the staples they want and need. Living in Fauquier County, we have plen...

CFFC, Clifton Institute Present Bugscaping: Regenerative Landscaping for the 21st Century

Plants and insects make our terrestrial ecosystems work. However, Science magazine and the National Academies of Science recently warned ...

CFFC Salutes Rosenwald Schools

Citizens for Fauquier County is pleased to be a sponsor of the African American Historical Association’s recognition of the Fauquier Coun...

Death by A Thousand Cuts – Why Special Exceptions Should Not be the Rule

MEMORANDUM TO: FAUQUIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION DATE: JULY 17, 2019 CC: FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: LES CHEEK, PRESIDEN...

Fauquier is Becoming a Dumping Ground for Nonagricultural Fill

Truck load after truck load of construction debris from Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William are being dumped in Fauquier despite the ef...

Often Ignored, Lives Worth Remembering

By Mary M. Root, CFFC Board Member For too long, American history has been told from the European point of view, without crediting all th...

Donate to CFFC on Give Local Piedmont

By Amy Trotto, CFFC Vice President May 7 is Give Local Piedmont day, and CFFC is participating for the first time. Established in 2014 a...

Is Affordable Broadband Within Reach?

A Special Report by Citizens for Fauquier County We are living in an increasingly connected and data-heavy universe with a growing expect...

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