Coming to Vienna, an Old-Fashioned Town Green
The project upends traditional ideas about how communities develop, according to this Fairfax Extra article. Instead of the town growing up around a central gathering place for its citizens, this green will be carved from reclaimed commercial property.
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May 25, 2006; 11:17 AM ET
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Posted by: Disgusted Viennan | June 2, 2006 11:24 AM
Don't blame Frank Wolf. The Vienna Town Council has been firmly committed for many years to wasting Town funds on hare-brained projects, Exhibit A being the brick sidewalks they had installed at the cost of millions along traffic-choked Rt. 123 (which, incidentally, has almost no foot traffic to use those sidewalks). In fact, the Town Green is right on Rt. 123, providing a perfect audio/visual/olfactory experience of endless traffic snarls. Vienna needs to be annexed into Fairfax County so at least the citizens are governed by capable politicians rather than the current lot of housewives and retirees willing to do the job for $5,000 per year (current Town Council salary).
Posted by: Another Viennan | June 2, 2006 4:53 PM
Having grown up in NE where no town is a town without a common, I am curious and want to pose the following clumsily worded (!) question:
Are those opposed to the town green opposed to having a green no matter where it is located -or- are they okay with a green in principle, but opposed to the location along 123 that was chosen for it?
Posted by: Anne | June 7, 2006 9:29 PM
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So this is how Frank Wolf lets our Federal tax dollars go to waste.