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Residents press Falls Church council to preserve single‑family zoning; youth and neighbors push traffic‑calming at Annandale & Gundry
Summary
A petition of 153 residents urged council to maintain R‑1 zoning protections and bar lot conversions; multiple youth speakers and neighbors presented observational counts of rolling stops and near misses at Winter Hill intersections and asked for speed bumps, raised crosswalks and temporary devices while staff examines longer‑term engineering solutions.
Residents and schoolchildren used the council’s public‑comment period on Jan. 27 to press elected officials on two neighborhood priorities: preserving single‑family zoning and calming speeds and stop‑sign noncompliance in Winter Hill and the Annandale & Gundry intersection.
Gene Gresco, speaking for a petition titled “Save Single Family Zoning in Falls Church City,” said 153 residents signed the petition and asked the council to maintain existing R‑1 (R1a/R1b) regulations, including limits on accessory units and prohibitions on converting R‑1 parcels to other zones. "We demand that the Falls…
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