A total of 234 new building permits for single-family homes across Fairfax County were issued by the county government in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 6.8 percent from the 219 permits issued during the same period in 2015, according to the Fairfax County Department of Management and Budget.
For the calendar year as a whole, the number of single-family permits issued was 1,006, up 6.7 percent from 943 in 2015.










