Calm down. No one is saying it's lovely and perfect now. But do you really need 50 industrial looking high rise buildings blocking out the sky to accomplish that? You can make beautiful retail and keep the village scene. |
There's no aim, just ready, fire, take the money and leave town. |
Why do you jump to false dichotomy? People can say they don't like a plan without meaning they want no change at all. Make a better plan on scale with the area. |
Great...so what's your plan? All I hear is I don't want Ballston, or Reston, or Pike & Rose...but then no alternative plan is offered. |
Have you ever smelled the exhaust from a bus garage? |
There is no village scene...anywhere. Certainly there is no village scene in FH. If you want a village scene you go to Old Town or Georgetown or Leesburg. |
The new garage will be servicing an all-electric bus fleet. |
Agree that is very unrealistic and probably not healthy or safe. |
Unless I am missing something...we are getting a bunch of high-rise buildings. Isn't that what the Wisconsin Corridor plan is promoting? That ship has sailed. So, it's no longer a question of getting the high-rise buildings, but maybe how they are configured, what kind of retail/restaurants/entertainment is provided, etc. |
Why do I have to be the one to make the plan? It's not my area of expertise. Show me a plan, and I'll tell you what I think as the consumer and home owner. This one? Not crazy about it. Scale it down, open it up some more. Don't shift traffic into school yards and residential neighborhoods. Pay attention to the realities of people who need physical access points. |
So if this is a done deal, why put it out for questions like this? No one cares what we think. |
Because DC Government is very performative...they ask for input on school boundaries, but they already basically know what they are going to do...they ask for input on development, but they already have a plan. I would prefer they just stop asking. I absolutely agree...we elect officials and they do what they do. You can get angry, but you just need to accept it is happening. |
Where do you want the buses to park, then? |
What's the problem with a bunch of high-rise buildings on Wisconsin Avenue, exactly? I see people complaining about turning AU Park into Pike & Rose, but Wisconsin Avenue is already a commercial corridor, and there's no plans to change the zoning for the actual residential parts of the neighborhood at all.
I live in an SFH less than a block from Wisconsin Avenue and across the street from an area that' slated for new zoning, and I think this plan seems great. |
Your property value is going up, up, up. Example: price history of SFHs just adjacent to Clarendon and Ballston development corridors and walkable to Metro. Land values are some of the most expensive in NoVa on a per square foot basis. |