Has Virginia ever given thought to breaking up Fairfax County? Its massive in size!

[Anonymous]

Has Virginia ever given thought to breaking up Fairfax? Its massive in size and could easily be broken up into 5 separate jurisdictions.

[Anonymous]

OP wtf

[Anonymous]

It's not even in the top 10 in VA by area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_counties_in_Virginia

It's the most populated county -- but why introduce four new government structures (including school districts)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has Virginia ever given thought to breaking up Fairfax? Its massive in size and could easily be broken up into 5 separate jurisdictions.

Doing so would almost certainly mean seperating higher income areas from lower income areas, resulting in some areas that now benefit from FFX's resources becoming stressed with the need to pay for services on a proportionately lower tax base. Its even more complicated because a lot of FFX's tax base is Tysons - why should the residents of the NE part of the County get all the benefit of that?

Because of those issues the FFX BOS will not try to do that, and the General Assembly would be reluctant to approve it.

[Anonymous]

Why? Currently they get economies of scale by being a larger county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Currently they get economies of scale by being a larger county.

+1.

[Anonymous]

I hope they break it up into 2 areas. It'll snow on the West side.

[Anonymous]

The school district should be broken into smaller districts.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and we should break up California and Alaska to while we're at it.

[Anonymous]

Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia, as Northern Virginia carries the state, financially. Same with Fairfax County - it should be divided by town, and each town should be independent, and people should live where they can afford - instead of certain parts of Fairfax County being carried by one or two places. But the locals would never hear of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, and we should break up California and Alaska to while we're at it.

And you forgot about Texas!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school district should be broken into smaller districts.

+1

It's way too big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school district should be broken into smaller districts.

+1

It's way too big.

Do you seriously want more administration and overhead costs? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia, as Northern Virginia carries the state, financially. Same with Fairfax County - it should be divided by town, and each town should be independent, and people should live where they can afford - instead of certain parts of Fairfax County being carried by one or two places. But the locals would never hear of it.

We live in a country where economic opportunity is too limited, and one of the things that maintains inequality is the unequal funding of education, with the poorest people having the least well funded schools. Say what you will about FFX county (and there are things I don't like about it) the way its geography forces the wealthiest folks in the County to help pay for the schools and services of the least wealthy (even if they don't actually have to send their kids to school with the poors) is one of the few bright spots on that scene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has Virginia ever given thought to breaking up Fairfax? Its massive in size and could easily be broken up into 5 separate jurisdictions.

Doing so would almost certainly mean seperating higher income areas from lower income areas, resulting in some areas that now benefit from FFX's resources becoming stressed with the need to pay for services on a proportionately lower tax base. Its even more complicated because a lot of FFX's tax base is Tysons - why should the residents of the NE part of the County get all the benefit of that?

Because of those issues the FFX BOS will not try to do that, and the General Assembly would be reluctant to approve it.

I think that's a feature, not a bug, of the OP's proposal. It's the same reason why CCMD is a separate town; they want to keep their revenues and regulations as local as possible.