Despite the county’s rapid growth, its government still struggled to provide services to its growing population. Even while many community activists had been lobbying for years for county attention to basic services, Fairfax in the mid-century was being called on to meet the needs of thousands of new residents every year, lobbying for their own interests. As former Supervisor Martha Pennino told residents of the Levitt & Sons Greenbriar subdivision in 1969, Fairfax officials tried to “spread the butter a little thinner,” to give everyone their fair share. At the same time, African American residents were at another disadvantage. Even by the late 1960s, not one Black agent was a member of the Northern Virginia Board of Realtors thus denying them access to databases and services controlled by the Board. Additionally, there was not one African American land developer or Black member of the county Bar Association in the county and few Black administrators among county officials. Given the absence of Black voices in development and planning, the contribution of African Americans was often limited to their labor as construction workers.