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[quote=Anonymous]Since you guys don't know the neighborhood or the people, here are a couple points of information. First, Gaver Nichols is probably one of the people most responsible for turning the Del Ray neighborhood from a run down white-trashy neighborhood into one of the hottest neighborhoods for young professional families in the DC area. He is a fantastic architect who risked and invested his own money over decades into creating a vision for an entire part of Alexandria. He is certainly no run of the mill HGTV-type flipper.

But, as anyone who knows him or considered hiring him, he is pretty much a jerk who insists on his way or the highway. That's not necessarily an uncommon thing with very good architects, but it is a little more unusual for those who do middle class residential work. He's clearly beefing with the neighbors who just couldn't buy into his vision for the little compound he created. It's all and all a pretty petty vendetta. I'm guessing his worst personality characteristics are becoming more evident with age.

Those of you who think he used his influence on a city task force 7 years ago to facilitate this nasty vendetta are just dead wrong. First, it would be a pretty good bit of fortune telling to know that the neighbors would renovate 5 years later in a way to piss him off. And he advanced the changes to be able to spite them years later. Second, there are really good reasons for the set back limit changes in a very dense city like Alexandria. It's not like the task force got to enact recommendations without lots of public hearings and a series of city council votes.[/quote]

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