Charming town has exploded with growth since we bought, now tons of litter

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Anonymous wrote:Where's that do-it-yourself spirit that small-government, low-tax conservatives want? Make it a weekly get-together with your neighbors to clean up trash along those major thoroughfares.

How is this a partisan issue? And why in the hell would long-time residents have to waste their free time to pick up a mess the town leadership created and profits from? New retailers = more property taxes. New apartments = more property taxes. Use that revenue to pick the s*** up. You can't 2x a town's population and 5x the retail and expect no downsides. Where does all the tax revenue go? It's like congrats bureaucrats...on making the town worse for everyone. Trash and traffic! Yay!

If you wanted to control what uses were on other properties, why didn't you buy them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

2-bedrooms in FCC are like $4000 a month. These buildings are not full of low income people. They have some trashy rich people though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You are the growth.

No. Our house was not a new build.

You ever hear the saying "you're not IN traffic, you ARE traffic?"

What you're saying is as stupid as claiming you're not traffic because you've got a new car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The lack of any detail in your post is impressive.

+1 Let us know which town it is and perhaps we can help you.

Falls Church City.

In support of OP, we left Falls Church this year after about 15 years there due to increased population density and the problems that came with it. And we were not the first on our block to do so. We got sick of the traffic and constant construction causing congestion on 7 and Haycock, amongst other things. Didn’t get annoyed by litter but don’t doubt it is now an issue.

[Anonymous]

Haven't seen a problem with litter, but the intersection of Washington & Broad has gone from bad to impossible with the new Whole Foods opening on the corner.

[Anonymous]

OP I thought you were going to tell us you moved to Tulum in Mexico.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

You outed yourself with this line. Lower income people do not generate any more trash than higher income people. In fact, probably less, because they consume less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Whose job is it to maintain roadside litter and trash? Was always perfectly clean 10 years ago.

This is the dumbest post I've seen in a while. "... maintain roadside litter", "ALWAYS PERRECTLY CLEAN"...? So, there was not even a spec of dust 10 years ago? Wow? Where did you live in Falls Church City? Were you blind? It was not perfectly clean then. The Tower Square plaza with that disgusting ethnic grocery were not perfectly clean, the shops on Fairfax St were a dumping ground, I could go on and on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

You outed yourself with this line. Lower income people do not generate any more trash than higher income people. In fact, probably less, because they consume less.

They tank the schools and bankrupt the locality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's that do-it-yourself spirit that small-government, low-tax conservatives want? Make it a weekly get-together with your neighbors to clean up trash along those major thoroughfares.

I was about to say, where's that, it take's a village attitude that liberals believe in. Make it a weekly get-together with your neighbors to clean up trash along those major thoroughfares.

[Anonymous]

Falls church city controls its own roads, not VDOT. Call city hall and complain. They have so overbuilt that it’s such a mess now - traffic, unsafe pedestrian crossings, ugly buildings everywhere. The least they could do with all that tax revenue is clean up the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Falls church city controls its own roads, not VDOT. Call city hall and complain. They have so overbuilt that it’s such a mess now - traffic, unsafe pedestrian crossings, ugly buildings everywhere. The least they could do with all that tax revenue is clean up the streets.

Nope. Rt. 7 and Rt. 29 are VDOT roads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

You outed yourself with this line. Lower income people do not generate any more trash than higher income people. In fact, probably less, because they consume less.

Lower income people litter more.

[Anonymous]

Your taxes. Your town probably has other priorities (like free stuff for takers vs. maintaining quality of life for payers) that are not aligned with trash pickup. Drove behind a car the other week exiting 95 and an arm came out the window tossing a bag of fast food garbage. No thought give, just tossed it out the window. Who knows who will ever pick that up on a busy exit ramp.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

You outed yourself with this line. Lower income people do not generate any more trash than higher income people. In fact, probably less, because they consume less.

Lower income people litter more.

This is a fact. They also cost FCC much more per student to educate.