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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to the library in Oakton, Great Falls, Vienna, Mclean.   We stopped going to the Reston Library at least 10 years ago.  It used to be a fine place but not now.  I've limited where I buy produce as well.

Fairfax County is spending huge amounts of money on redevelopement that is not needed.   New homeless shelter etc.  Library will still have the same problems.  Any new library.   Why put long term units and families with the problematical population?  Why have they let the library be ruined for community use?

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/restontowncenternorth/

I read public meeting info and comments.  Reston has a performing arts stage in Hunters Woods.   People want that in this project also.  The public schools have stages.  Spending other people's money never ends.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/restontowncenternorth/shelter-design-manual.pdf[/quote]
Ugh. (OP here.) I looked at that redevelopment plan, and contained within it are both the homeless shelter and the subsidized townhouses at the corner. Are they going to knock those down, too, and re-build them as well? (If they want to update kitchens or whatever, fine....but not an entire rebuild I hope.)

I'm fine with the subsidized townhouses being near the library, since the low-income kids can make use of it to advance their education (and to learn the pleasures of reading in general), but why are they leaving the homeless shelter there? JFC. Fairfax County knows that the homeless are ruining the library, and now would be a chance to relocate it. This is political correctness run amok.

P.S. The library is even more needed now that the Barnes and Noble left.

P.P.S. The nearby Harris Teeter used to have a problem with homeless people, some mentally deranged, wandering their store and upsetting customers. They finally cracked down.

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