Anonymous
Post 05/31/2016 11:45     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Sunrise wants to build an assisted living facility on the land where the Surge church is located at Kirby and Westmoreland. Most of us in the vicinity are strongly opposed. The land is zoned for 3 residential homes per acre and this requires a special zoning exception. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my neighbors, the project is far too large for that 3.7 acre site and will exacerbate traffic issues at that intersection.


The Tysons Tunnel people return! These folks should be blacklisted from ever using one of these facilities should they or their family need it.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 22:35     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sunrise wants to build an assisted living facility on the land where the Surge church is located at Kirby and Westmoreland. Most of us in the vicinity are strongly opposed. The land is zoned for 3 residential homes per acre and this requires a special zoning exception. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my neighbors, the project is far too large for that 3.7 acre site and will exacerbate traffic issues at that intersection.


Another one? There's a huge one around Chesterbrook ES, a nursing home on Powhatan, and another big one up the street next to Longfellow MS. I know a student who got hit by a car turning left from the retirement home on Westmoreland. What's wrong with moving to FL or AZ?


Apparently the options are FL, AZ and McLean.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 22:16     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
And the Lewisville by the Presbyterian Church on 123.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 22:06     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Sunrise wants to build an assisted living facility on the land where the Surge church is located at Kirby and Westmoreland. Most of us in the vicinity are strongly opposed. The land is zoned for 3 residential homes per acre and this requires a special zoning exception. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my neighbors, the project is far too large for that 3.7 acre site and will exacerbate traffic issues at that intersection.


Another one? There's a huge one around Chesterbrook ES, a nursing home on Powhatan, and another big one up the street next to Longfellow MS. I know a student who got hit by a car turning left from the retirement home on Westmoreland. What's wrong with moving to FL or AZ?
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 22:05     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where the ingress/egress will be? Will it be further down on Kirby? Because I don't think that area of Westmoreland can take it.


Kirby can't handle it, either. If Foust permits this request for an zoning exception to go forward, he can forget about support of this part of Dranesville in the future. That ought to concern the local Democrats, as they depend on votes from this area.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 21:56     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Congestion with a senior living facility? That's a pile of crap.


+1. Live in the area, and QFT.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 21:22     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Does anyone know where the ingress/egress will be? Will it be further down on Kirby? Because I don't think that area of Westmoreland can take it.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 20:17     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
The anti- traffic argument is not a good argument, in my view. What is a better argument is that the architectural plan is not in keeping with the neighborhood of single family homes if, in fact, the plan is 60 feet, or 6 stories above street level. I would support a three story residential style building that fits in. What does Foust say?
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 18:22     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Give that Falls Churh City council only cares about tax income and NOT schools or traffic, like every other project, this one will be approved.


Falls Church City schools are ranked some of the best in the state.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 18:18     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
I really hate Sunrise. The company assumes all older people like tacky faux "Victorian" for a retirement community. That's not true. I oppose this development. It's zoned for single family residential, and allowing it to be built sets a bad precedent.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 15:53     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Give that Falls Churh City council only cares about tax income and NOT schools or traffic, like every other project, this one will be approved.


The location in question isn't in Falls Church City.


Thanks for being the third person for saying that.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 15:45     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Give that Falls Churh City council only cares about tax income and NOT schools or traffic, like every other project, this one will be approved.


The location in question isn't in Falls Church City.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 15:17     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sunrise wants to build an assisted living facility on the land where the Surge church is located at Kirby and Westmoreland. Most of us in the vicinity are strongly opposed. The land is zoned for 3 residential homes per acre and this requires a special zoning exception. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my neighbors, the project is far too large for that 3.7 acre site and will exacerbate traffic issues at that intersection.


Is "traffic" code for poors like "schools" is for minorites? Just so we are on the same page please.

Also where is the logic that putting people close in is what makes traffic worse. Putting people far away is what I would think makes traffic worse as the total number of people in cars that spend a larger chunk of their time in said traffic is what exacerbates traffic.

Stop being a hypocrite, you bought in a decent and convenient place and you have a problem with others trying to capitalize to allow others to enjoy the niceness and proximity. What is the niceness at capasity or you just failed sharing? Zoning changes and that is the most likely outcome for that parcel

Yes falls church has worse traffic than it did 70 years ago when the population was smaller but that is the price for density, a few NIMBYs shouldn't be allowed to stop progress.


It is zoned R-3 and should stay that way. Residents reasonably assumed the county would preserve the current zoning and not do special favors for Sunrise - a company with a troubled history, to put it mildly - simply because it hired a former member of the Board of Supervisors (the same guy who moved some parts of Reston and Vienna to far-away Langley HS when he was on the School Board in the 1990s) to represent them. If John Foust lets this happen on his watch, he can kiss good-bye to his support in that part of Dranesville.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 15:00     Subject: Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
I have a Sunrise across the street from my house. It generates no measurable extra traffic, with the exception of the occasional ambulance call, which they do without sirens.

Seriously, it's one of the better options for there, and it's not like Kirby is quiet around there anyway.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2016 15:00     Subject: Re:Falls Church - Say no to Sunrise signs?
Anonymous wrote:Give that Falls Churh City council only cares about tax income and NOT schools or traffic, like every other project, this one will be approved.


This is not in Falls Church City, it is in the postal code for Falls Church, but most would consider it to be McLean as it lies within the McLean Commuity Center tax district. It is between Longfellow Middle and McLean HS.