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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:29, thank you for the detailed response.

Can you comment about the walkability of Fairfax City?  How about compared to Vienna, if you are familiar enough.  [/quote]

20:29 here.

In both cases, it depends on where you live.  I guess that is stating the obvious.  In Vienna the main drag is 123 and it has a lot of stuff on it and close to it and most residential areas that are defined as Vienna (whether in the town limits or not) come off that.  Some can be pretty far from the stores and other than the main strip, there is not much to walk to in Vienna other than parks and the W & OD trail (and the trail is great).  Some of the parts of Vienna that are actually walkable to the Vienna/Fairfax Metro are not really walkable to most stores.  That is true on the Fairfax side too.  If you look on a Map, the metro is in the median of Route 66 and you can see how far that is to 123.  123 intersects with 66 at the next exit but that is an area called Oakton north of 66 and is Fairfax south of 66.  It is smaller than Vienna and Fairfax but it also has restaurants, grocery stores and generally more expensive homes and most are not walkable to anything. Oakton used to be horse friendly and still has some small areas with horses but many of the large lots have been subdivided.

Fairfax has a few more major roadways that have retail and the roadways intersect each other and there are neighborhoods in the areas between the retail corridors.  The roads are Fairfax Boulevard (Routes 29/50), Chain Bridge Road/Ox Road (Rte 123), Main Street (Rte 236), Pickett Road and Old Lee.  That means that there are probably more neighborhoods that are potentially walkable to something. For example, my neighborhood is older Cape Cod-style houses and ramblers from 1940s and 50s.  I can walk less than a mile to a CVS, Dunkin Donuts, Zoes Kitchen, Washington Sport and Health, Chipotle, 5 Guys, 7-11, several nicer restaurants, a Latin grocery store that actually has a lot, Barber, Hair salon, nail salon, my vet, Burger King, McDonald's, Indian food, Honeybaked Ham, Hallmark store, Gas Stations, Fabric stores, paint stores and of course car dealerships (Fairfax has a lot of dealerships).  So I can walk to a lot and that is great because I have two small children and I don't always have to pile into the car.  I can also walk into my neighborhood and there are little parks and a neighborhood pool.  There is a bus route nearby that goes to the Vienna Metro and I took it every day when I worked downtown.  Fairfax City has two bus routes that wind through the city and both go to the Metro.  From where I live, the old town district is about a mile or 1.5 miles and that is definitely walkable depending on when or what you are doing.  If you live deep in a neighborhood then walking might not be as easy and some parts of the City may not have as much stuff close by.  Fairfax tends to have older homes and many are more modest than you will find in Vienna.  There are some developments of newer and larger houses in Fairfax but as I mentioned yesterday, it is older and developed as a suburb before much of Vienna--many houses here were built in the 40s and 50s rather than the 60s or 70s as is the case in some of Vienna.

Hope that helps.  [/quote]

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