June 13, 2006
While I was poking around Wikipedia today looking for information for another hare-brained idea of mine, I came across an interesting bit of information: No municipalities (cities or towns) can be created in a county that has a population density of more than 1000 people per square mile.
The two counties to which this applies? Fairfax and Arlington. I'm guessing the rest of the state got worried that we'd start forming municipalities up here left and right, and stack the deck in the state government. Except both the House of Delegates and Senate seem to be done by population within the state, not municipal/county boundaries. So, it doesn't really make any sense to me. What does it matter?
