Plan to Lure Business Drawn Up in Fairfax
Businesses in Fairfax County would be offered tax breaks, developers would be issued building permits faster and some government pension funds would be used for private investment under a plan to be presented to the Board of Supervisors next week.</br></br>The sweeping proposals from a commission appointed by the board are intended to entice out-of-state businesses to move to Fairfax and revive the county's stagnant economy.</br></br>"Their recommendations are going to be very controversial, but profound," said Board Vice Chairman Elaine N. McConnell (R-Springfield).</br></br>"The first thing it would do is send out a message nationally that we're going to change our way of dealing with businesses that come in here," she said.</br></br>The plan, put together by a group of business leaders headed by McConnell, may become a blueprint for the new Republican majority that recaptured the board last year with a pro-business, pro-growth platform.