tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post9166383807407127071..comments2024-02-29T14:00:40.184-05:00Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): Mauvescraper Now: 23-Story Office Building Inches Closer to ApprovalRestonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519884797760354007noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-9587602420029687802012-07-03T11:08:16.958-04:002012-07-03T11:08:16.958-04:00I think DMD and JM have hit the nail on the head. ...I think DMD and JM have hit the nail on the head. The Developers are in the driver's seat of the bus called Reston. The Developers and their minions, the BoS, only care about the opinions of R2020 or ARCH or any of other groups to the extent that they can use these opinions to get their way.<br /><br />Let me put it another way, folks. You Are Being Used By The Developers For Their Profit, Not Yours.<br /><br />NO GROWTH IS SMART GROWTH.The Convictnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-87860374180153751932012-06-30T11:30:22.238-04:002012-06-30T11:30:22.238-04:00Reston stopped being "Reston" about a de...Reston stopped being "Reston" about a decade ago, after the 90's last burst of commercial real estate orgasmic exertions. The supervisors have seldom met a developer they didn't like, so this one is a shoe-in anyway. Since this building will be surounded by the Spectrum project anyway, what's one more outsized box?The impotence of Reston's alphabet soup citizen groups has never shown more painfully.The Java Masternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-84487842615677107122012-06-29T22:22:39.771-04:002012-06-29T22:22:39.771-04:00I remember when all of Town Center was forest.
...I remember when all of Town Center was forest. <br /><br />Twenty years from now, I will be writing that I remember when you could still drive from south to north Reston in less than two hours. <br /><br />What a world is being created here for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-25790418465514177262012-06-29T15:41:21.336-04:002012-06-29T15:41:21.336-04:00"On the other hand, county staff recommended ..."On the other hand, county staff recommended denying the project Here Comes The Sun Shield (PDF), as have Reston2020, ARCH, and the Reston Association itself, which opposed the project to build an earth-based solar thermostat that would lower the surface temperatures of the Sun (while profiling it in its RA science magazine, If God Wanted Man To Lower The Surface Temperatures of the Sun, Then God Would Have Made Icarus the Pope). The main argument? It's too far from Reston's interplantery sister city, the Martian colony of Delusionalville, too tall (with the definition of 'too tall' being that if the building is taller than a piece of pasta from Macaroni Grill with a fly resting on top of it then it's too tall, and should have a time-travel residential component like the proposed Spectrum redevelopment that will eventually surround it. However, since Northrup Grumman was in favor of project Here Comes The Sun Shield, Reston's alphabet soup can of community organizers found themselves outplayed by Reston's alphabet soup can of top secret government organizations intent on saving the imperiled mid-Atlantic region's ski industry from another horrendous season, such as was last experienced 80 years ago in during the terrible summer desert wind storms that occured during the winter of 2011 when Wintergreen's ski lifts melted."<br /><br />In some alternate universe perhaps a more advanced civilzation's leadership would give a rat's ass what Reston2020, ARCH, and the Reston Association think, but not in the the Fairfax County-based Citizens United Super Pac community called F' All Y'all Developerville.Mean Daddy Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-48209263785419500012012-06-29T15:39:42.187-04:002012-06-29T15:39:42.187-04:00Might be time to start looking for a new home outs...Might be time to start looking for a new home outside of Reston.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-37717022366568384552012-06-29T13:37:59.415-04:002012-06-29T13:37:59.415-04:00A word of warning to the BoS. Vote against this a...A word of warning to the BoS. Vote against this at your own risk. Anyone who votes against this will find themselves running against an opponent with a massive war chest, thanks to Citizens United.<br /><br />No Growth is Smart Growth but Corporations are not People.The Convictnoreply@blogger.com