Franklin Area Citizen Association

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What is the Franklin Area Citizen Association?

         The Franklin Area Citizen Association is a voluntary assembly of citizens that live in the Briar Ridge, Franklin Cluster, Franklin Park, Little Pimmit Run, Vinson Hall. Kenbargan, and Wrenwood sections of Fairfax County. Geographically the area is bounded by Arlington County on the south and Kirby Road on the north. The west boundary follows Powhatan Street, but does not include those houses that front on Powhatan, while the eastern boundary bisects the area midway between Old Dominion Road and Chesterbrook Road. The area currently includes about 600 houses and 200 residents of Vinson Hall.
          The purpose of the Association is to "provide and preserve the general welfare, character and best interests of the community." Toward this end it reviews requests for rezoning and voices any concerns to the County government; disseminates information to the area's citizens through newsletters and brochures and this web site; and encourages contact through meetings and social gatherings.
            The Association normally holds 2 general meetings a year, a social gathering in the spring and a general membership meeting in the fall. At the fall meeting, a board of directors is elected to oversee Association business. Officials are elected by the Board at its November meeting. The Board, which is comprised of 15 members, meets on the 2nd Thursday of alternate months.
                                          Become a FACA Member Today!!
We need your participation and support, and active FACA membership is vital so our elected leaders can better hear our voices. Membership dues are $20 per family per year, and our year runs from June to June.
       Membership in FACA allows us:
     -- To act as a collective voice in addressing zoning and other legal issues that impact our community.
     -- To organize periodic events that bring us together as a community.
     -- To work together to continue to maintain unique features of our neighborhood.
     -- To meet expenses such as mailing, the tree project, and the website.
application, payment

Maintain our Urban Forest The Tree Replacement Program is a cost-sharing program that encourages FACA members to plant new trees in replacement of those that have died. Program details click

Franklin Park predates the establishment of McLean (which will celebrate its 100^th in 2010). While Colonel George Minor and other notables settled the Franklin Park area in pre-revolutionary times it was 100 years ago, in 1909, that Franklin Park was first subdivided into what is now our lovely neighborhood.

FACA neighbors celebrated this historic occasion on May 16th, 2009. A parade represented the flight of our 4^th President, James Madison, and his wife, Dolley, as they fled from the White House to the protection of Minor's Hill during the British invasion and burning of the capital in 1814. The McLean High School's Project Enlightenment helped us remember those historic times.

Whether donating useful remnants from a house
tear-down, or needing materials for a project, the
ReStore program is a worthwhile cause that benefits
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