Hello,
Details of the Reevesland deal began to emerge at last Wednesday's Reeves Farmhouse Open House meeting, held in the County Board Room.
A large pipestem lot will be created and the present driveway will be widened to Manchester Street at the County's expense. The County will permit the future owner to add an addition to the farmhouse. The structure will be zoned R-6. The zoning will allow for a realtor's, consultant's, or other professional home office with 2 1/2 outdoor parking spaces.
The present garage will be torn down and other improvements made to to the site at County's expense before the sale, using the $410,000 left over from the funds that were supposed to be used for fixing up the farmhouse.
Other of the left-over $410,000 funds will be used to make the milk cooling shed into a historic exhibit and for future "community amenities" like playground equipment.
The Reevesland site improvement proposals will go to the Historic and Landmarks Review Board's Design Review Committee for evaluation on August 5th and to the full HALRB for a public hearing on August 19th.
Planning Commission and County Board will vote on the pre-sale site improvements in September.
Cindy
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The only thing left on the site that will be 'historic' will be the milk cooling shed.
Anyone know which lucky Democrat will own the farmhouse?
Wait, wait, don't tell me. There will be a $785,000 on the County Board's consent agenda in 2016 for a 'Reeves Farm Milkhouse Historic Interpretative Center', $1,165,000 for an ADA compliant playground on the County Board's consent agenda in 2017, and $340,000 on the County Board's consent agenda in 2018 for a bikeshare station.
Supposed to be a follow-up Reevesland article in the Post on Thursday.
The deal to sell the Reeves farmhouse must have been in the works for years given how many tens of millions Parks and Rec spent on sports and recreation infrastructure over the past decade. Farmhouse could have been renovated cheaply during the past recession.
County Board is giving the future buyer 'bonus density'? LOL.
Audrey Clement and Mike McMenamin for County Board.
I knew there had to be a deal to sell the farmhouse when million dollar dog spas and softball fields were funded via the CB consent agenda and every time the Reeves Farm was brought up by someone at a CB meeting he or she was ignored.
Wash Post follow-up article will be in the Local Living Section on Thursday.
We're all wondering which Democrat was promised the farmhouse.
How many more of these Zimmerman-era Deals for Democrats are still in the pipeline?
First thing the new independent internal auditor should audit is Parks and Recreation. How do Parks and Rec employees get to have $1 million in 'descretionary spending' from bond funds?
According to today's Post, a coalition of local non-profits headed by the Arlington Historical Society is attempting to purchase the farmhouse.
So why was so much time and effort spent marketing the farmhouse as a single family home?
Because Arlington's VIP 'community leaders' are misers?
When push comes to shove, will the non-profits be able to pay to buy the farmhouse?
And how much longer will the farmhouse saga drag on?
Bonfire!
I am not surprised that the farmhouse is up for sale as a private home. All Arlington's VIPs are interested in is how many gimmes they can squeeze out of County Government and how little they can get away with contributing.
You get what you vote for with one-party government.
I am sick and tired of one-party government and will (again) vote Independent in November.
HALRB put the County's plans 'on hold'. More charades? We'll see by January.
This is what we get from a bunch of misers who control the for-profits and non-profits.
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