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Lewinsville Senior Center to Be Expanded
Public-Private Partnership Will Increase Independent-Living Units and Other Amenities BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
A newly inked public-private partnership agreement will redevelop Lewinsville Senior Center in McLean in coming years and offer nearly four times as many independent-living units, plus a separate senior center and day-
care facilities. The Board of Supervisors on July 29 approved an interim agreement with Wesley Hamel Lewinsville LLC to redevelop the senior facility. The contractor, which is part of the nonprofit Wesley Housing Development Corp., now will navigate through the county’s land-use process to build the project.
If Wesley Hamel receives funding approval for low-income-housing tax credits next year, county officials hope to break ground for the project in 2016 and have it finished by summer 2017. The 8.65-acre site, located at 1609 Great Falls St., is operated by the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The
38,355-square-foot building now has 22 units of affordable, independent senior housing in the Lewinsville Senior Residences, as well as a senior center, adult day-care center and two privately operated child-care centers. These operations are housed in the forContinued on Page 20
County Court Officials Prep For What May Transpire Over Future of Same-Sex Marriage BRIAN TROMPETER and SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writers
Like everyone else, Fairfax court officials spent last week in wait-and-wonder mode, anticipating word on whether the U.S. Supreme Court would halt same-sex marriages before they even begin in Virginia. “We of course are waiting for the parties to exhaust their federal remedies,” Gerarda Culipher, chief deputy clerk of the Fairfax County Circuit Court, told the Sun Gazette Aug. 15. Until then, “the law of Virginia hasn’t changed,” Culipher said – and no marriage licenses to same-sex couples would be issued unless and until courts say so. The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week refused to put on hold its order mandating acceptance of same-sex marriages in the jurisdictions under its authority: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina. Opponents of the ruling appealed to the U.S.
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Jan Canterbury and Nadia Malley were among three same-sex couples who on Valentine’s Day 2013 turned in applications for marriage licenses to the Arlington County Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office as part of a statewide event in support of marriage equality. Clerk Paul Ferguson said he would accept the paperwork but could not process it until Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage was rescinded.
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Supreme Court to delay implementation of the ruling. (See the Web site at www.insidenova.com/news/fairfax for updates.) Virginia voters in 2006 approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman. Same-sex couples, who number an estimated 14,200 in Virginia, have not been eligible for marriage licenses, and out-ofstate marriages between same-sex couples are not recognized by Virginia. Culipher said that same-sex couples have come to the Fairfax clerk’s office, and “we shared the law with them.” Fairfax County issues the largest number of marriage licenses in the commonwealth; in 2012, the last year for which full records are available, there were 5,069 issued in Fairfax, compared to 4,721 in Virginia Beach and 3,055 in Arlington, according to state figures. The Arlington Circuit Court clerk’s office several years ago began accepting
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