Destruction of Property
<bt>On Tuesday, Nov. 15, around 2:30 a.m., a Fairfax County Police officer responded to a report of destruction at Frost Middle School on the 4100 block of Pickett Road in Fairfax. According to police reports, the officer found 63 windows broken out of the school building and out of 13 trailers, as well as four windows broken out of the W.T. Woodson High School building nearby on the 9500 block of Main St.
<sh>Armed Robbery in Pan Am Center
<bt>A Fairfax man was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday, Nov. 27, behind the Pan Am Shopping Center in Fairfax. According to a Fairfax County Police report, around 9:30 p.m., the 18-year-old victim was walking home from the shopping center in the 3000 block of Nutley St. when he passed a man walking in the opposite direction. After the two men walked past each other, said the report, the suspect called out to the victim, displayed a handgun and demanded money. The victim gave the suspect an undisclosed amount of money and the suspect fled on foot. The victim, who was uninjured, contacted police after he arrived home, said Officer Patrick Lucas of the Fairfax County Police Department.
The suspect is described as black, 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, said the report. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.
<sh>Increased Police Presence on Parkways
<bt>Until Dec. 9, drivers along the Fairfax County and Franconia Springfield Parkways will see a stronger police presence as Fairfax County officers participate in a speed enforcement campaign called 50 Means 50.
Officers from the Franconia, West Springfield, Fair Oaks, Reston and Sully districts will be paying special attention to the 37 miles of roadway that stretch from Route 1 in the southern part of Fairfax County to Route 7 near Leesburg in an attempt to stop speeding, aggressive or reckless driving. So far this year, 782 crashes have occurred on the parkways, more than 100 more than the 690 crashes reported between January and October 2004.
In addition to message boards that will be set up throughout the parkway, police will use marked and unmarked cars along with motorcycles and radar and lidar speed detectors to stop offending drivers.
<sh>Land-Use Committee Meets Dec. 6
<bt>The Springfield District/Fairfax Center Land-Use Committee will meet Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., in rooms 4 and 5 of the Fairfax County Government Center. Call Marlae Schnare at 703-451-8873.
On the agenda is a proposal by the Lincoln Property Co. for a mixed-use development in the Fairfax Towne Center. The site is located in the northwest corner of the intersection of West Ox Road and Monument Drive.
The developer would like to change the existing, 3-acre, surface parking lot there into the spot for a five-story building. The first floor would contain 20,000 square feet of retail space, and the four floors above it would consist of 140,000 square feet of multi-family residential space. Planned are 164 units with underground parking.
<sh>New School Boundary Meeting, Dec. 8
<bt>The third boundary meeting for the new west Fairfax elementary school takes place Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m., at Liberty Middle School, 6801 Union Mill Road in Clifton.
Earmarked for a September 2006 opening, the $16 million school will be on Dixie Hill Road, in the Fair Chase subdivision near the Fairfax County Government Center and Route 29. It will have 36 classrooms and the same floor plan as Centreville's Colin Powell Elementary. The new school is being built to relieve overcrowding at Colin Powell.
Students may also be shifted to the new school from Greenbriar East and West elementaries, as well as from Poplar Tree, Brookfield, Willow Springs and Fairfax Villa. Anyone interested in participating in the boundary process is welcome to attend the meeting.