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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/03/20/mclean-residents-sue-to-stop-i-495-widening-over-environmental-impacts/

NIMBYism strikes again. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were some visitors of this forum. [/quote]

What a nasty post, OP!  If you had bothered to read, you would know that the citizens working on this are aligned with the Sierra Club.  Have you seen what VDOT is doing at the Georgetown Pike interchange and the bridge?  The trees have been all stripped out.  It's horrible.  And schools and churches sit right there along with homeowners.[/quote]

Oh noooo! Not the poor churches!! Lmaooo[/quote]

Cut it out. Cooper Middle School sits right there. Once upon a time it had a tree buffer but VDOT ripped the trees out in front if it without notice. That resulted in citizen outrage and protests from Cooper’s principal about air quality. Body then moved all of its vehicles in. John Foust promised it would become a dog park. It wasn’t now all of the remaining trees have been ripped out. [b]It’s an unsightly mess[/b][/quote]

It’s a construction zone.

And you cut it out. Cooper is across Balls Hill Rd and set back from the street. Its outdoor spaces are behind the school and angled even further away from the Beltway. There’s plenty of green space where the kids actually spend their time.[/quote]

On the one hand, you have the families who live near the 495 widening who think highlighting the impact on Cooper strengthens their case and, on the other hand, you have other Cooper/Langley families who are heavily invested in making those schools out to be paradise. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.  [/quote]

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