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Ongoing Cigarette Butt Littering – Azalea Street Bridge at Arroyo Road From Dawn Lillington <[email protected]>
Date Wed 9/2/2026 10:07 AM
To Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]> Dear Fairfax Town Council,
I am writing to report an ongoing and very concerning littering issue on the bridge on Azalea Street at Arroyo Road.
Someone is regularly leaving large numbers of cigarette butts along the bridge. The area looks increasingly disgusting, but more importantly, I am very concerned that these cigarette butts are being blown or washed directly into the stream below.
This appears to be directly contrary to the Town of Fairfax Municipal Code, §8.32.020(E)(1)(a), which prohibits the throwing, depositing or leaving of refuse or other discarded material on streets, sidewalks, storm drains and other areas where it might become a pollutant discharged to water. The ordinance specifically addresses protection of Fairfax's waterways.
Cigarette butts are not harmless litter. They contain plastic filters and residual chemicals and can be transported through stormwater into waterways. The fact that this particular location is directly above a stream makes the situation especially concerning.
I would ask the Town to please:
Investigate the source of the cigarette litter;
Arrange for the bridge and surrounding area to be cleaned; Consider increased monitoring or enforcement at this location; and Consider whether additional signage or a cigarette disposal receptacle would help prevent this from continuing.
This is not simply an issue of an untidy public space. It is an ongoing source of potential pollution directly adjacent to a waterway and, in my view, warrants action under the Town's existing litter and water-quality regulations.
I would appreciate confirmation that this complaint has been received and information about what action the Town intends to take.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Kind regards,
Dawn Lillington
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Dawn Lillington
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Comment on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Public Review Draft From Jeffrey Guild <[email protected]>
Date Tue 9/1/2026 4:46 PM
To Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]> Dear Council Members,
I'm Jeff Guild, an alternate on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. I wanted to flag for the record that the Public Review Draft of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan update was released today, September 1st, and I'd encourage residents to review it and share feedback during the comment period.
I'd also like to note a specific inconsistency in the current draft. Policy 1.1.3 establishes the BPAC as a formal standing committee to conduct annual reviews of the Pavement Management Plan. However, Chapter 4 (Community Engagement) still states that the BPAC "is designed to dissolve automatically once the Town Council officially adopts the final" plan — language carried over from the earlier Administrative Draft. These two provisions directly conflict.
This matters beyond a drafting inconsistency: several of the plan's own emerging mechanisms — ongoing pavement review, pilot project evaluation, and community-input tracking — assume a standing body to carry them out after adoption. Without resolving this, public engagement risks ending at this comment period rather than continuing through plan implementation, which several parts of the draft already assume will happen.
I understand this may require amending Item 9 of Resolution 25-33, which currently mandates the BPAC's automatic dissolution. Councilmember Blash (our committee liaison) has indicated support for sponsoring such an amendment, and I wanted to make sure the underlying inconsistency is documented as this moves forward.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jeff Guild
BPAC Alternate
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From Jessie Cervantez <[email protected]>
Date Mon 8/31/2026 5:11 AM
To Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]> https://youtube.com/shorts/UAMQRoRAS4Y?is=qzYTf8kOi0s888Ox Let's take care of this please, we will make the trip and expose more of this Outlook
Community Fridge
From Martha <[email protected]>
Date Sat 8/29/2026 1:31 PM
To Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]> Hi Fairfax Town Councilmembers,
I am Martha Quirie and have been a Fairfax resident my whole life. The most important part of Fairfax to me is the community that we have here and the mutual care I feel that this town has. However, we as a town can provide so much more mutual support than we currently do. The Fairfax Food Pantry is a great start for community members who are in need of food, however, the hours are highly limited, and people need access to food around the clock. Free community food fridges are a solution to this issue that have worked in other towns before. I think that a stocked fridge, organized and cared for by the community, would work perfectly in the town of Fairfax especially if residents were well informed on it.
For this we would need a small area of land close to downtown where a fridge could be placed with a little shelter built around it. (Ideally, it would be slightly more than just a single fridge and have some shelving for shelf stable foods and cans, but those can be added later.) Residents would then be encouraged to leave food for other community members who could pick up food whenever they wanted. I'm aware that this would need maintenance and care to clear out old food and keep everything clean. I think that that could get done with a taskforce of resident volunteers who wanted to help out. I see this functioning just like one of the little libraries around town, but instead of books we'd have food.
I am aware that a fridge comes with electricity costs which would have to be discussed at length and fit into the town budget. The initial cost of buying the fridge I would be happy to cover. For models of fridges made after 2000 it seems that they cost around $200 a year to run on the high end of estimation. For a town of our size, I don't feel that $200 should dissuade us from the possibility of having a community fridge.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Martha Quirie