PUBLIC HEARING: Board of Supervisors

Tuesday, April 22

Agenda

(In addition to the Budget Hearing, below is a partial list of items on the agenda for public comment)

• reclassification of the Animal Control Police Officer (APPOs) positions
• revising standards for fences
• add or clarify standard pertaining to screening equipment of data centers
• revising the Affordable Dwelling Unit (ADU) applicability standards and updating ADU example calculation provisions
• revising standards for Uses Exempt from a Site Plan or a Minor Site Plan
• revising the Fee Schedule
• increase the local transient occupancy tax rate
• tax on food and beverages sold as meals by restaurants and caterers
• updating the availability-charge schedule for residential, commercial, and all other users desiring to connect to the County sanitary sewer facilities, the fixture unit rate, and proposed hauled wastewater charge

2026 Budget Hearing*

• FY 2026 Effective Tax Rate increase
• 2026 Advertised Budget Plan
• FY 2026 Proposed Tax Rate
• FY 2026-2030 Advertised Capital Improvement Program (with Future Fiscal Years to 2035)
• amend the current appropriation level of the FY 2025 Revised Budget Plan

*NOTE: Public Hearings on the Fairfax County FY26 Budget will be held:

• April 22, at 4:00 pm
• April 23, at 3:00 pm
• April 24, at 3:00 pm

For Budget Hearing testimony use this form:
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/clerkservices/budget-public-hearing-testimony

Citizens and businesses of Fairfax County are encouraged to present their views on issues on the agenda.

At the end of hearing, persons may present their view on issues not on the agenda. Each speaker may have up to three (3) minutes and a maximum of 10 speakers will be heard. Speakers may address the Board only once during a six-month period.

Individuals wishing to provide public comment must sign up in advance no later than 12:00 pm on the day of the public comment period either online at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/bosclerk/speakers-form or by calling 703-324-3151.

• View live on local TV Channel 16
• Stream live online at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cableconsumer/channel-16/stream
• Live audio: 703-324-7700

Those wishing to testify may do so in person, via phone, or prerecorded YouTube video. Speakers wishing to testify via video must register by signing up online or by calling the Department of Clerk Services at 703-324-3151, TTY 711, and must submit their video no later than 9 a.m. on the day prior to the hearing. Speakers wishing to testify via phone must sign up to testify no later than 12:00 p.m. the day of the hearing to be placed on the Speakers List. Speakers not on the Speakers List may be heard after the registered speakers have testified. In addition, written testimony and other submissions will be received by mail at 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 552, Fairfax, Virginia, 22035 or by email at ClerktotheBOS@fairfaxcounty.gov.

More information on the ways to testify can be found at
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/clerkservices/ways-provide-public-hearing-testimony