Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?

[Anonymous]

I'm ok with the retirement home idea; I don't like that it's 6 stories high in a residential neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

After reading the DC "open letter" thread: Falls Church is so fortunate that a retirement community is it's biggest problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

I think high earning residents in larger homes is better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

The McLean schools aren't particularly overcrowded, particularly compared with APS these days. At most 15 homes could be built on the site given the current zoning, and it's safe to assume only a fraction of the families would have kids or send them to public school. It's a residential area and both L'Ambiance and other developments in the area have more than held their value. I can more than understand the opposition to skirting the zoning laws and allowing Sunrise to change the character of the neighborhood. If John Foust is so eager to do favors for Sunrise, let him redistrict Balls Hill Road near his house to accommodate them.

[Anonymous]

Ok whatever - we can agree to disagree. Can you please take down the stupid signs? I think that all this is doing is

1. motivating people who disagree with your position to contact local officials and support opposition to you

2. Dividing a community of people who don't have any control over the process anyway - or influence (like probably in this forum)

3. Nobody would have ever know about this if it hadn't been for the litter you've strewn along Westmoreland Street. The meeting is over. Please clean up the signs. It's on public property - not in private yards (few exceptions)

The ONLY reason I care is because I truly think Sunrise is needed - and ONLY because I had to go through the overwhelming financial and emotional cost of taking care of my mom in our home the past two years. So - thanks for shedding the light - I wouldn't have cared normally - but now I do.

Please take the signs down. I can have 50 made at fast signs in 24 hours supporting the cause and posting them along the same route - where does that get us? Whatever happens will happen minus these forum discussions or a yard sign war...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm ok with the retirement home idea; I don't like that it's 6 stories high in a residential neighborhood. [/quote

I totally agree. The site is just the wrong place, period. ]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok whatever - we can agree to disagree. Can you please take down the stupid signs? I think that all this is doing is

1. motivating people who disagree with your position to contact local officials and support opposition to you

2. Dividing a community of people who don't have any control over the process anyway - or influence (like probably in this forum)

3. Nobody would have ever know about this if it hadn't been for the litter you've strewn along Westmoreland Street. The meeting is over. Please clean up the signs. It's on public property - not in private yards (few exceptions)

The ONLY reason I care is because I truly think Sunrise is needed - and ONLY because I had to go through the overwhelming financial and emotional cost of taking care of my mom in our home the past two years. So - thanks for shedding the light - I wouldn't have cared normally - but now I do.

Please take the signs down. I can have 50 made at fast signs in 24 hours supporting the cause and posting them along the same route - where does that get us? Whatever happens will happen minus these forum discussions or a yard sign war...

This is 16:31. Were you responding to me? If so, I had no role in putting up the signs in the neighborhood. On the other hand, I do believe community members have some influence on the relevant decision-makers. It's part of what keeps the area reasonably attractive, despite the efforts of those who'd try to turn it into a paved-over cityscape.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

+1

The schools are very overcrowded - other PP seems oblivious, uneducated on the matter, or just doesn't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

+1

The schools are very overcrowded - other PP seems oblivious, uneducated on the matter, or just doesn't care.

They don't care because most MCA participants are past the age of having kids in school. At this point, their primary objective is to prevent any 'change' to the retirement community feel of 'their' McLean.

[Anonymous]

A better location would be in Tysons, a smart developer would use it as they low income quota

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

+1

The schools are very overcrowded - other PP seems oblivious, uneducated on the matter, or just doesn't care.

They don't care because most MCA participants are past the age of having kids in school. At this point, their primary objective is to prevent any 'change' to the retirement community feel of 'their' McLean.

Let me get this straight. People want to have younger families in their neighborhood rather than another retirement home, and you claim it's so they can preserve the area's "retirement community feel"? You really aren't too bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

+1

The schools are very overcrowded - other PP seems oblivious, uneducated on the matter, or just doesn't care.

They don't care because most MCA participants are past the age of having kids in school. At this point, their primary objective is to prevent any 'change' to the retirement community feel of 'their' McLean.

Let me get this straight. People want to have younger families in their neighborhood rather than another retirement home, and you claim it's so they can preserve the area's "retirement community feel"? You really aren't too bright.

Haha. Ok. Nice attempt at a misdirect you crotchety old nimby dinosaur.

[Anonymous]

Dinosaur - not fair you are unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people period. I would humbly suggest you stick to the building facts and not the profile of who will live there - all this age stuff is discrimination and it has nothing to do with the color of skin, religion or socio-economic status. Wow. And I have elementary school kids btw. If the "say no" sunrise people would allow respectful discourse on their Facebook page we could all see who eachother are - for real. They delete comments that don't agree with theirs. I am so sorry you all feel the way you do about "old people" - your day will come and so will the karma ? bus.

[Anonymous]

^^^ and I wrote the reply about the yard signs. I don't know who I was replying to - I do think we could all agree that the format of this forum's interface could be better. I just wanted to make a statement of the obvious (obvious to me anyway)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who live around there should be celebrating a Sunrise development, lest the space otherwise be turned into something like that tacky LAmbiance of McLean subdivision across the street. At least Sunrise won't bring more kids into the overcrowded schools.

The McLean schools aren't particularly overcrowded, particularly compared with APS these days. At most 15 homes could be built on the site given the current zoning, and it's safe to assume only a fraction of the families would have kids or send them to public school. It's a residential area and both L'Ambiance and other developments in the area have more than held their value. I can more than understand the opposition to skirting the zoning laws and allowing Sunrise to change the character of the neighborhood. If John Foust is so eager to do favors for Sunrise, let him redistrict Balls Hill Road near his house to accommodate them.

McLean would be more over crowded if their class sizes were as small as Arlington's. Arlington can solve quite a bit of its problem by raising the class size by 5 students.