The Purple Onion was mentioned in passing at the 10/4/2018 Town Council work session. In this post, I’m going to explain why I found that important.
In a nutshell, one of the Maple Avenue property owners who helped write the MAC law is now (apparently) getting ready to sell property under that law. Hence the title of this page. Continue reading MAC comes full circle, 10/8/2018
At some small risk of sacrilege, I will subtitle this one “An Appeal to Saint Jude”.
I attended the Town Council’s 10/4/2018 work session where they reviewed the revised plans for 444 Maple Avenue West. Though, honestly, sitting here this morning, I’m not sure why I bothered.
Here’s what I think I learned. Five Town Council members will vote for every MAC project, no matter what. Two won’t. Everything else is detail. Until the Town Council changes, every MAC project that complies with the law will be approved. Continue reading Review of the 10/4/2018 Town Council work session
It was just brought to my attention that people are now confusing two MAC projects, 444 Maple Avenue West (huge building with 160 apartments) with the newly-submitted 380 Maple Avenue West (huge building with 40 condos). Continue reading 444 Maple West and 380 Maple West are two different buildings, 10/4/2018
Here’s the story so far. After 1000 signatures on an anti-MAC petition, and more than 100 citizens standing up to speak against MAC in various meetings, the Mayor and Town Council have:
I’m not going to answer this one. You decide for yourself. Continue reading Whom Does Town Government Serve?
Few people other than avid bicyclists know this, but to some degree, the awful traffic on Maple is a legacy of the W&OD railroad. That railroad cut Vienna in half about a century ago. And today, Vienna is still very nearly cut in half. For a roughly 4.5 mile stretch, the W&OD road bed prevented roads from crossing Fairfax County in an East/West direction. And now, for that entire 4.5 mile stretch, the only roads that cross the W&OD are a handful of streets in downtown Vienna. And of those, the only one that can handle any traffic is Maple. Continue reading The traffic legacy of the W&OD railroad, 10/2/2018
The revised plans for 444 Maple West/Tequila Grande are available on the Town of Vienna Website. These will be used at the Town Council work session, to be held 7:30 PM on Thursday, October 4 in Town Hall. Continue reading Revised proposal for 444 Maple West/Tequila Grande, REVISED 10/2/2018
On this page, I will try to give notice of forthcoming Town of Vienna government actions relating to the two open MAC zoning proposals. That said, there seems to be no good way to do that. There is no published schedule, and the Town publishes the agendas for individual meetings just a few days ahead of the meeting. Continue reading Coming Events, 10/27/2018
On 9/24/2018, Town council looked at a draft plan for future capital expenditures. This is the “Town of Vienna CIP Review (Fiscal Years 2019-2034) Presented to Council September 24, 2018″. I did not attend that meeting, but I can see from the documents that it differs materially from what was in the current budget. Let me line out the differences that matter vis-a-vis MAC zoning. The major differences I see are: Continue reading Town of Vienna Capital Plan, 9/26/2018
This is a placeholder as I develop the surveys that should be done instead of the planned “visual preference survey”. I only want to make three points.
1) We should learn what we can from Falls Church. Continue reading We need a real survey.