DYKES v. NO. VA. TRANSP. DIST. COM'N

Record Nos. 901033, 901037.

411 S.E.2d 1 (1991)

Marcia P. DYKES v. NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT COMMISSION, et al. Osgood TOWER v. NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT COMMISSION, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

On Rehearing November 8, 1991.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Falk, Jr. (Scott A. Mills and James H. Falk, Sr., McGovern, Noel, Falk, Pannone, Procaccini & O'Leary, on briefs), for appellant Marcia P. Dykes.

Fredrick H. Goldbecker for appellant Osgood Tower.

William G. Broaddus (David T. Stitt, County Atty., A. Robert Cherin, Deputy County Atty., Ellen F.M. Posner, Asst. County Atty., A. Francis Robinson, Jr., James K. Manning, William J. Strickland, and Brown & Wood; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, on brief), for appellees, Northern Virginia Transp. Dist. Com'n, et al.

Commonwealth of Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder, Governor of the Com. of Virginia, A.L. Philpott, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Hunter B. Andrews, Chairman of the Virginia Senate Finance Committee, Robert B. Ball, Sr., Chairman of the Virginia House of Delegates Appropriations Committee, C. Richard Cranwell, Chairman of the Virginia House of Delegates Finance Committee, Local Government Attys. of Virginia, Inc., Virginia Ass'n of Counties, Virginia Mun. League, Virginia Government Finance Officers Ass'n, Government Finance Officers Ass'n of the Metropolitan Washington Area, County of Arlington, Va., County of Loudoun, Va., County of Prince William, Va., County of Roanoke, Va., County of Scott, Va., County of York, Va., H. Lane Kneedler, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., K. Marshall Cook, Deputy Atty. Gen., Barbara M. Rose, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Barbara H. Vann, Stephen Chapple, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief); Rockingham County, Va. (George R. Aldhizer, Jr., Carolyn M. Perry, G. Chris Brown, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, on brief); Chesterfield County, Va., City of Roanoke, Va. (Steven L. Micas, County Atty., Wilburn C. Dibling, Jr., City Atty., on brief); and Anderson & Strudwick, Inc., Branch Cabell & Co., Cent. Fidelity Bank, Craigie Inc., Crestar Financial Corp., Davenport & Co. of Virginia, Inc., Dominion Bank, Nat. Ass'n, Scott & Stringfellow Inv. Corp., Signet Credit Corp., Sovran Inv. Corp., Wheat, First Securities, Inc., and Virginia Chamber of Commerce (Harry Frazier, III, Jack Spain, Jr., Bryar C. Nettles, and Hunton & Williams, on brief), amici curiae, for appellees.

Gloria T. Fisher, Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Bd., Director, Gary T. Amos, Associate Professor, College of Law and Government, Regent University, Mark Siljander, Lawrence D. Pratt, Gwendalyn F. Cody, John F. Herrity, Robert T. Robarge, Craig C. Markva, D. Patrick Mullins, Brig. Gen. Benton Partin (Ret.), James G. Lamb, Christy Ann Collins, Martin P. Claussen, PhD, Evelyn B. Claussen, Kennelm Winslow, II, Committee to Protect the Family Foundation, Springfield Committee of Correspondence, Anthony J. Slaga, Dorothy T. Slaga, Charles L. Selander, Ann Frances Dodd, Ann Mianegez, Susan E. Holland, John T. Towell, Director, Family Foundation, Walter E. Barbee, Chairman, Virginians for Family Values, Rodney E. Montgomery, President, Fairfax Citizens Council, Elizabeth A. Robinson, Patricia S. Robinson, Ann Margaret Robinson, Charles Clark Robinson, Calvin Ridley Dodd, Zoa F. Dodd, Robert A. Dodd, Richard P. Dodd, Ellen S. Shepherd, P. George Tryfiates, Laurie K. Tryfiates, Rev. Stanley P. Gorman, Tracey L. Gorman, John M. Vann, Eleanor B. Vann, Roger L. Gounaud, Karen J. Gounaud, Kurt M. Markva, Michael W. Thompson, Donald E. Roe, Gene L. Malpas, Nancy Tower (Neil F. Markva, on brief); Citizens Against Pledge Bonds, Inc. (Patrick M. McSweeney, Stephen T. Gannon, McSweeney, Burtch & Crump, on brief); and Nancy Tower and Ernest R. Blevins (Fredrick H. Goldbecker, on brief), amici cariae, for appellants.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING and LACY, JJ., POFF, Senior Justice, and HARRISON, Retired Justice.


WHITING, Justice.

This is a proceeding to validate a proposed bond issue to be repaid solely by funds appropriated by a county's board of supervisors, and which is not to be submitted to a vote of the people. The issue is whether the county will incur a long-term debt proscribed by Article VII, § 10(b) of the Constitution of Virginia (Article VII, § 10(b)).

In order to finance a part of the cost of completing the Fairfax County Parkway, the Fairfax...

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