Posted on 09/14/2022 6:43:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
Lee and Lee-Jackson highways may officially no more.
In a 9-1 decision, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to change names of Lee and Lee-Jackson highways to Route 29 and Route 50 respectively.
“This is a necessary and important change for Fairfax County. We will continue to strive to realize our vision of a more equitable One Fairfax,” wrote Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay in a statement.
The move comes after a yearlong review by the county’s Confederate Names Task Force, which called on renaming the highways. The task force submitted recommendations in December.
Overall, updates to signage is expected to cost roughly $1.4 million, according to a county memo. An additional $1.5 million is estimated for a financial assistance program that would affect businesses and residential units that may be impacted by the name change.
That financial assistance program will be developed in the fall through a formal proposal.
Supervisor Pat Herrity — the board’s lone Republican — voted against the proposal. Officially changing the names will require the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
The vote comes at the heels of a June decision to change the Lee District’s magisterial name to the Franconia District.
Evoking Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the highways were among 150 sites in the county with names whose Confederate origins were confirmed by a 2020 report from the Fairfax County History Commission. Combined, they represent over 20 miles of roadway from Chantilly on the county’s western end to the Falls Church border in the east.
Heathan pagans invaded our country and immediately set about destroying our heritage—aided and abetted by the Democrats and George Bush "Republicans".
Ancient cultural monuments—before and after the Taliban,
Those racist bass turds better rename Shiela Jackson-Lee too.
We used to celebrate Lee-Jackson Memorial Day/Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. Not no more.
Congresswoman Jackson Lee should be stripped of her name. Racist old hag!
The forces of decomposition never rest.
GMTA lol
I drove through there’s few months ago and wondered when they’d make this moron move
3 million dollars
pissing away my tax dollars on nonsense
It also costs to change deeds & other records-—vote registration-—school registration-—Business addresses, etc.
They’ll change it to Tranny Turnpike
Nine to one.
Sodom and Gomorrah both could have been saved with just 10 righteous men.
It won’t be long now.
Yup, they need to rename them “Slave-owner Road” and “Ku Klux Klan Highway”.
RENAMED TO: Woke Boulevard and LGBTQ Parkway
They’ll change it to honor her
They can rename everything in the whole damn commonwealth. Won’t change anything. Same people, same mountains, same rivers, same lakes.
democrats are simply evil people.
The RATs are just trying to destroy the evidence of their having been on the wrong side of slavery.
It used to be “The Jefferson/Jackson Dinner”.
The Lee Highway runs from Richmond to Chattanooga and then to Memphis....
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
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