While I work on a write up of a recent meeting between Sunrise assisted living and some Vienna residents, and while we wait for the developers to erect the front face and tall tower of the Chick-fil-A, here are a few heights of tall structures on or near Maple. These were all measured using Google Earth Pro. Continue reading Some building heights and setbacks, 11/6/2018
Category: MAC zoning
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
10/29/2018 Town Council Meeting
Apparently it takes $170K in proffers to win the vote of Councilman Noble. Continue reading 10/29/2018 Town Council Meeting
Survey Results, 10/29/2018
Last week I fielded a brief survey about MAC zoning to Town of Vienna residents. I sent out 400 letters to randomly-selected residents asking them to take a brief on-line survey using Surveymonkey (www.surveymonkey.com/r/citizens). Continue reading Survey Results, 10/29/2018
Town Council Meeting Monday 10/29/2018
On Monday October 29, at 8 PM, in Vienna Town Hall, the Vienna Town Council will vote on the proposed building for 444 Maple West/Tequila Grande. Please attend. Here are some relevant links. Continue reading Town Council Meeting Monday 10/29/2018
Yard Signs, Survey, and other ways to participate, 10/20/2018
Yard Signs updated 11/26/2018
NOTICE REGARDING YARD SIGNS:
If your sign is less than 10 feet from the road, please move it farther back into your yard. If you don’t, the Town of Vienna has the right to remove it for being in the right-of-way for the road. Continue reading Yard Signs updated 11/26/2018
survey images
Size illustrations
Chick-fil-A
Tequila Grande
380 Maple West
Marco Polo
Sunrise
444 Maple West and 380 Maple West are two different buildings, 10/4/2018
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