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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People loved to hate on Mosaic District but I think that has dissipated.  It's not a bad pop up.[/quote]

Definitely not, it’s just a very tiny patch of urbanity and human scale grid in the midst of an ugly tangle of highways and strip malls. [/quote]

Lol, FFX county makes some catastrophically bad choices when it comes to infill development. They are getting ready to do much worse along 66 with the redevelopment of the AT&T property. Throwing up a bunch of cheaply constructed dense housing with no thought to how it will actually affect the surrounding infrastructure which clearly can't handle the extra people and traffic.

It's all lets throw a few bike lanes into the mess of traffic that claims at least a few bodies every few years, yeah give the cars speeding through on their way to somewhere else on two lane roads a few more targets. At least Mosaic surrounded by large roads, Lee, 50 and Gallows, a walkable metro stop, and highways (66 and 495) were designed intentionally, with a larger 20-40 yr plan of as to how Merrifield would be redeveloped from an industrial site into an urban lite cluster and fully capable of supporting its resultant density.

Venturing a little farther into Fairfax, 123 and FFX Boulevard, crazy zoning mix of dense apartments and THs all shockingly ugly and cheaply thrown up. FFX County clearly has absolutely no interest in urban planning at all. Just let the developers, throw around some kickbacks and then come in a do whatever they feel like doing which is never in the interest of the broader community. 
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