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Governing Board tweaks design of community center’s expansion
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McLean Community Center
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Date: July 02, 2014 09:39AM
Governing Board tweaks design of community center’s expansion
http://www.insidenova.com/news/fairfax/local/governing-board-tweaks-design-of-community-center-s-expansion/article_01e49af6-0133-11e4-9e8c-0019bb2963f4.html
The McLean Community Center’s Governing Board recently approved design changes for the center’s upcoming renovation that will shift some of the new addition farther away from Ingleside Avenue.
The revised design calls for a 1,008-square-foot meeting room to be added just past the community center’s large meeting area, which has two partition walls. A storage area jutting out toward Ingleside Avenue would be accessible to both meeting areas.
A large addition that would have been appended to the new meeting room instead will be added south of the Susan B. DuVal Art Studio and set at an angle from the building so it parallels Oak Ridge Avenue.
This addition will feature a 2,983-square-foot multipurpose room, with one partition wall; a 108-square-foot kitchenette; a 430-square-foot storage space; and men’s and women’s restrooms.
The multipurpose room will provide needed space for fitness, aerobics and dance classes, said George Sachs, the center’s executive director.
The new structure will occupy ground that in a previous plan had been slated for a 28-space parking lot. Community center officials are contemplating ways to reconfigure the site’s existing parking area and make it more efficient, Sachs said.
The lot features several parking zones separated by medians and has a central chokepoint at the crosswalk leading out from the center. This can prove problematical when large crowds are streaming out of the center after events.
The central courtyard, which currently opens with a view toward Dolley Madison Library, will be enclosed and roofed, with only a 1,255-square-foot sculpture garden in the center exposed to the open sky. A 661-square-foot board room will be located adjacent to the sculpture garden’s south end and a 703-square-foot lounge appended to the garden’s northern terminus.
The infill arrangement “optimizes space, reduce frontage along Ingleside Avenue and creates a natural connection to the library to honor [founder Robert Alden’s] idea of a civic campus,” said Governing Board chairman Chad Quinn.
McLean Community Center’s last major addition, a community hall, was built in the late 1980s, Quinn said. The tax district that finances the center has seen its population grow by 25 percent since then, but the facility has been unable to accommodate this growth, he said.
Center officials have obtained a conceptual design for the renovation project and within the next couple of months will examine its feasibility and try to narrow down costs, Quinn said.
Officials also will obtain cost estimates for the new conceptual design and hold so-called “2232” public hearings over this coming fiscal year to determine the project’s potential impact on the surrounding area.
Officials hope they will be ready for the project’s construction phase by the end of 2015, Quinn said.
“We’ll make a really strong effort to ensure as we are taking these steps, we do it hand-in-hand with the public,” he said, citing the Governing Board’s ongoing commitment to transparency.
This updated plan for the McLean Community Center's future expansion shifts a new multipurpose room away from Ingleside Avenue (located to the left of the illustrated building) and closer to the facility's existing art studio.
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The McLean Community Center’s Governing Board recently approved design changes for the center’s upcoming renovation that will shift some of the new addition farther away from Ingleside Avenue.
The revised design calls for a 1,008-square-foot meeting room to be added just past the community center’s large meeting area, which has two partition walls. A storage area jutting out toward Ingleside Avenue would be accessible to both meeting areas.
A large addition that would have been appended to the new meeting room instead will be added south of the Susan B. DuVal Art Studio and set at an angle from the building so it parallels Oak Ridge Avenue.
This addition will feature a 2,983-square-foot multipurpose room, with one partition wall; a 108-square-foot kitchenette; a 430-square-foot storage space; and men’s and women’s restrooms.
The multipurpose room will provide needed space for fitness, aerobics and dance classes, said George Sachs, the center’s executive director.
The new structure will occupy ground that in a previous plan had been slated for a 28-space parking lot. Community center officials are contemplating ways to reconfigure the site’s existing parking area and make it more efficient, Sachs said.
The lot features several parking zones separated by medians and has a central chokepoint at the crosswalk leading out from the center. This can prove problematical when large crowds are streaming out of the center after events.
The central courtyard, which currently opens with a view toward Dolley Madison Library, will be enclosed and roofed, with only a 1,255-square-foot sculpture garden in the center exposed to the open sky. A 661-square-foot board room will be located adjacent to the sculpture garden’s south end and a 703-square-foot lounge appended to the garden’s northern terminus.
The infill arrangement “optimizes space, reduce frontage along Ingleside Avenue and creates a natural connection to the library to honor [founder Robert Alden’s] idea of a civic campus,” said Governing Board chairman Chad Quinn.
McLean Community Center’s last major addition, a community hall, was built in the late 1980s, Quinn said. The tax district that finances the center has seen its population grow by 25 percent since then, but the facility has been unable to accommodate this growth, he said.
Center officials have obtained a conceptual design for the renovation project and within the next couple of months will examine its feasibility and try to narrow down costs, Quinn said.
Officials also will obtain cost estimates for the new conceptual design and hold so-called “2232” public hearings over this coming fiscal year to determine the project’s potential impact on the surrounding area.
Officials hope they will be ready for the project’s construction phase by the end of 2015, Quinn said.
“We’ll make a really strong effort to ensure as we are taking these steps, we do it hand-in-hand with the public,” he said, citing the Governing Board’s ongoing commitment to transparency.
This updated plan for the McLean Community Center's future expansion shifts a new multipurpose room away from Ingleside Avenue (located to the left of the illustrated building) and closer to the facility's existing art studio.
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Re: Governing Board tweaks design of community center’s expansion
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how does that work?
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Date: July 02, 2014 09:52AM
The tax district that finances the center has seen its population grow by 25 percent since then, but the facility has been unable to accommodate this growth, he said.
How does that tax district work? Just curious. Is it a special area that has extra real estate tax?
How does that tax district work? Just curious. Is it a special area that has extra real estate tax?
Re: Governing Board tweaks design of community center’s expansion
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bjtKG
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Date: July 03, 2014 12:53AM
that's where rich assholes in McLean who can afford to pay to go out, can spend your money to make a place for gov workers to huddle for FREE on your money. it's pretty clear they plan to expand into hiring community directors and such and have scheduled activities, not to mention they won't hire their kids to do work (they'll get them gov jobs or leave them unemployed). they'll hire mexicans why pay more to f'around ?
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why should it be affordable for a self-starter to open a yoga place ? gov can spend the money better than other people , like a mega facility with everything gov workers want for FREE. do you have free? no. are you hiring democrats at 3x the pay ? no. so screw off.
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why should it be affordable for a self-starter to open a yoga place ? gov can spend the money better than other people , like a mega facility with everything gov workers want for FREE. do you have free? no. are you hiring democrats at 3x the pay ? no. so screw off.