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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rich neighborhoods block stuff. My neighbor growing up we were aghast when our one “semi fast food place” Friendly’s was to be bought by Burger King. We got into lawsuit with Burger King and eventually they won but we passed a law it is illegal to serve food on a paper or foam plate, use silver ware or serve food in disposable containers or have plastic forks and knives.

Burger King would have to open with  glass plates with silver ware and glass cups. They backed out.

Fast food even trendy fast food brings litter, roaches, rats, noise, parking issues, also shady workers into town. As no one in town would work in that place.

We did not even want supermarkets and banned new ones. We don’t need denser housing or even jobs. Why those rich areas are all white collar or trust fund babies. No one in that town would work those jobs so all it does is bring strangers in.

It is why rich towns ban AIRBnB, my favorite one town in the Hamptons banned Uber and Lyft. They charge a huge taxi permit fee and only their licensed taxi can do pick ups or drop offs. The town pays a bit more taxi service but blocks riff raft.

It is uniform and drab on purpose.

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Completely irrelevant points. McLean is not incorporated and can’t ban anything.  Two developers own Downtown McLean and haven’t wanted to redevelop it, point blank.  The County keeps trying to entice them to redevelop with different plans but it’s not working.  I don’t think the truly rich in McLean care one way or another what happens to downtown.  There is an older retired contingent that is anti-development but they really have no power (and are not the McLean wealthy.)[/quote]

The big plan amendments were adopted this June.  It’s perhaps premature to say they haven’t worked because developers are going to be especially cautious while we’re still dealing with Covid.  But they may not work when the current owners can continue to collect rents from existing tenants and there’s so much other development under way in Tysons/McLean.

People should also be careful what they ask for.  Some additional restaurants would be great, but there are some really nice local family-owned restaurants in McLean.  I could certainly imagine a scenario where there’s redevelopment, rents get jacked up even more, and we lose some of the local restaurants like Kazan and Aracosia to a Potbelly’s and a Cheesecake Factory. [/quote]

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