http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2016/06/fight-density-rezoning-fairfax-co/

Some residents in Fairfax County are worried that their quiet neighborhoods will be inundated with traffic congestion following new zoning changes.

Do what any normal person would do in a similar situation. Sell your house and move to Loudoun County. In addition to pleasant neighborhoods you do not have to worry about a meals tax.

Sometimes less is more. I grew up in Arlington and spent many decades watching Fairfax and Arlington get wealthier, more affluent, and less joyful to live in. We made less, and had less materially. We also had less stress and less crime. More space, more sense of community, more respect for each other. It's seems to me that the politicians and the developers are the ones who are benefiting the most. As for me, I've moved west to area's that remind me of Fairfax in the 60s. Guess we'll see how long it last before the greedy bastards extend their reach here.

The original down-zoning from Audrey Moore and the rest of her commie BOS members is what caused the traffic problem to begin with (that and the DC riots). So funny, everything comes full circle if you live around here long enough.

Bullshit.

All throughout the 70's and early to mid 80's, Jack Herrity's board allowed housing developments to be built without requiring they contribute to road improvement and expansion. Can't lay that at Moore's feet, it had been going on for almost 20 years prior.

By-right development dipshit, how the fuck are you going to extract proffers (i.e., road improvements) for that?

Aundrey Moore and her cronies came in, down-zoned the County creating the situation you are left with now. They spaced-out development all across the County creating the need for these 6 lane roads everywhere without the means necessary to require the developers to build them. If they had left well-enough alone, the population centers would have continued to grow where people had access to transportation/jobs. But no, they couldn't do that, gotta make sure the County has enough trees....more trees here than when the god damn indians were running around. Typical liberal policies that fuck everything up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/11/09/fairfax-downzoning-upheld-posing-challenge-for-davis/3d0b1347-11d6-4140-ad98-7a4b1dddc99d/

for the life of me, I do not understand why the Board of Supervisors wants to turn Fairfax into Brooklyn or Queens. if people in Fairfax wanted that type of high-density living, they would just move to a city. we have had entirely too much congestion, traffic, and Urbanization for well over 15 years. in fact, the county should have put a moratorium on all new development way back in the late nineties. it used to be that Fairfax could say that we had a great school system and low crime for our population, now that is not exactly the case. I realize that Fairfax does not have DC or PG County levels of crime, but we should not be using those jurisdictions As the barometer for acceptable levels of crime

Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> Do what any normal person would do in a similar
> situation. Sell your house and move to Loudoun
> County. In addition to pleasant neighborhoods you
> do not have to worry about a meals tax.


Nope. Aside from the fact that it's waaaaaay the fuck out in the boonies...there's radon gas everywhere. Better get your levels tested.

metalhead Wrote:
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> for the life of me, I do not understand why the
> Board of Supervisors wants to turn Fairfax into
> Brooklyn or Queens. if people in Fairfax wanted
> that type of high-density living, they would just
> move to a city. we have had entirely too much
> congestion, traffic, and Urbanization for well
> over 15 years. in fact, the county should have put
> a moratorium on all new development way back in
> the late nineties. it used to be that Fairfax
> could say that we had a great school system and
> low crime for our population, now that is not
> exactly the case. I realize that Fairfax does not
> have DC or PG County levels of crime, but we
> should not be using those jurisdictions As the
> barometer for acceptable levels of crime



You must not understand the power of $$$ to motivate people to do anything.

Haha...
Very true, very true Truthmonger.
It's just a shame that we don't seem to have any local politicians with a moral compass. I just wish decent people who put the needs of the community first would run for office, what a novel concept!



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I don't mind the idea of more concentrated development around metro stations. What I don't want is a bunch of niggers in Section 8 housing clustered around the stations. That shit works for DC and PG, but this is Fairfax!

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Apartments = Low income and minority voters = more tax retinue & Democrats stay in power.



Corruption at it's finest

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/08/26/the-agenda-21-depopulation-of-rural-areas-will-give-obama-stalin-like-control-over-food/