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Two months into the MAC moratorium, an update 11/20/2018

Background on the MAC moratorium

At the 9/17/2018 Town Council meeting, the Town Council voted to suspend any further acceptance of MAC rezoning applications until (probably) after the next Town election in May 2019.  You can see my write up of that here.  In addition to the three projects that had already been submitted, two more were submitted prior to the moratorium deadline, and it appears essentially certain that the Town will approve both of those additional projects. Continue reading Two months into the MAC moratorium, an update 11/20/2018

Community meeting with Sunrise Assisted Living, posted 11/7/2018

On Tuesday 10/30/2018, representatives of Sunrise Development (Sunrise assisted living) met with a handful of interested Vienna residents.  This meeting was essentially un-advertised, and you just had to know somebody to know it was going to occur.  I did not attend but got notes from two individuals who did attend, and my writeup is based on their notes. Continue reading Community meeting with Sunrise Assisted Living, posted 11/7/2018

Recap and some thoughts on strategy, 10/30/2018

So, what did civic involvement with 444 Maple West get us?

My bottom line is that all we did was help the Town of Vienna government do what it wanted to do.  Public protest merely helped the Town extort more out of the developer, while producing more-or-less the same very large building holding a lot of housing units.  We took what was going to be a blight on this neighborhood, and forced the Town, to force the developer, to pretty it up a bit. Continue reading Recap and some thoughts on strategy, 10/30/2018