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Politics & Government

Fairfax Open Space Committee Meeting

The Fairfax Open Space Committee meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 7:30pm to 9pm at the Fairfax Youth Center on Park Road. Open Space Committee meetings are free and open to the public. Mimi Newton currently serves as the Committee Chair. 

The Open Space Committee is a standing committee and functions is an advisory body to the Town Council with the charge to assess open space acquisition opportunities, raise funds and support within the community for such proposals and advise the Town Council on matters of common concern.

The Committee has in its purview responsibility to survey the lands within, and adjacent to, the Town of Fairfax in order to determine the availability of unique, threatened, or environmentally sensitive land parcels that may be appropriate to acquire to hold in perpetuity as dedicated open space for the public; The Committee also has responsibility for the consideration of long term planning of open space in and near Fairfax, for the generation of community support for the implementation of that program and for the fund raising necessary to implement the plan. 

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