Fairfax County Flag ordinance

[Anonymous]

Curious as to what FC residents think about this.

Fairfax County Planning Commission proposal Wednesday, 3/3 to:
Reduce size of flags 24 square feet, excludes the right to fly 50 square foot Fallen Hero Flags.
Lower height flag poles 25 feet.
Limit # of flags 2 fly @ home 2, includes national,state,military, college flags.

[Anonymous]

How many flags do you fly at once, OP? We fly one at a time. I have no problem with this.

[Anonymous]

My question would be "why"?

Is there something that the county is trying to avoid? Are there neighborhoods flying 50 flags per house?

I have no skin in this as a DC resident, but the what is really happening here part of me asks "why".

What about houses with twenty yard signs?

[Anonymous]

This resident is a genius:

Another resident, Adrienne Whyte, said, “I’m wondering why flags and flag poles were rushed into the agenda. It seems like solution in search of a problem and I fear the solution could be worse than anything we are experiencing now.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My question would be "why"?

Is there something that the county is trying to avoid? Are there neighborhoods flying 50 flags per house?

I have no skin in this as a DC resident, but the what is really happening here part of me asks "why".

What about houses with twenty yard signs?

What do you mean? No one is flying 50 flags. How strange?

It reads like a limit of two and limiting the size. There is an exception for a larger fallen heroes flag, apparently -- it can be 50 square feet.

This has nothing to do with flying 50 flags.

[Anonymous]

So I can't fly my Scotland flag?

It's obviously to ban the confederate flag....as much as I loathe it and think down on people who do fly it, I don't think it should be against the law.

[Anonymous]

I bet this has to do with Trump flags.

[Anonymous]

OP, love your "curiosity."

FC resident with a US flag flying from our porch, and this sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

That's probably not the answer you're hoping for, though.

Time to go back to the Dr. Seuss threads!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question would be "why"?

Is there something that the county is trying to avoid? Are there neighborhoods flying 50 flags per house?

I have no skin in this as a DC resident, but the what is really happening here part of me asks "why".

What about houses with twenty yard signs?

What do you mean? No one is flying 50 flags. How strange?

It reads like a limit of two and limiting the size. There is an exception for a larger fallen heroes flag, apparently -- it can be 50 square feet.

This has nothing to do with flying 50 flags.

No, there is no exemption for fallen heroes flags.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning-development/sites/planning-development/files/assets/documents/zmod/flags-flagpoles.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet this has to do with Trump flags.

Probably

[Anonymous]

I guess I don’t really care either way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I can't fly my Scotland flag?

It's obviously to ban the confederate flag....as much as I loathe it and think down on people who do fly it, I don't think it should be against the law.

Where does the proposed ordinance prohibit someone from flying a Confederate flag? It seems like common sense and decency, not a content-neutral ordinance, would discourage that.

[Anonymous]

When is a something a flag versus a banner?

[Anonymous]

What problem is this law trying to solve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What problem is this law trying to solve?

Sounds like people who like power trying to exert control.