I work at 2100 Clarendon Blvd., and am not happy where the County is going. I'm a long-time County employee and bought a nice 3-bedroom 2 bath ranch home in Westover 30 years ago. Now, as I approach retirement, I am finding the assessment increases on my home are going to put me under some significant financial stress once I retire.
Never mind about me. You should be aware that several years ago at least two County Board members promised Ballston-area dog owners that historic Ball Cemetery off Washington Blvd. would be "repurposed" into a Dog Park. On the County Board's Regular Hearing Agenda tomorrow (June 18th),
Until about 30 years ago the Ball Family Cemetery was preserved, but after 'Smart Growth" got started the cemetery was allowed to go to ruin, along with the neighborhood's commercial infrastructure.
So now it's Mixed-Use Redevelopment time for the neighborhood and the cemetery.
If the County Board, and it's Progressive-Socialist-Urbanist cronies, can desecrate a cemetery that has no connection whatsoever to the Confederacy to provide a playground for dogs, the County Board is capable of anything.
Mary 22205
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P;ease attend tomorrow's County Board Meeting to Protest the Cemetery's imminent Desecration !!!
Where has the American Legion been about preserving this historic site? Drinking cheap beer while eating barbecued bull testicles?
New Urbanists removed and trashed historic gravestones and made the historic graveyard a mess over the past 30 years, like the rest of the neighborhood. Every older neighborhood a mixed-use gentrification redevelopment opportunity. That's the Dumb Growth Mixed-Use Gentrification Paradigm.
Dump Dumb Growth...NOW !!!
There's like ZERO contributions towards preservation and improvement of public infrastructre by the Smart Growth Skanks.
Yeah...Cemetery's going to be 'canine friendly' open space in the Spring of 2020, per the County Board's Progressive Socialists in January 2020.
Spend 6 months and who knows how much finding Ball Family descendants...a huge family? ;~}
Right...Canine friendly picnic area.
Not surprising. Millennials sit around the War Memorial on weekends drinking and no one seems to care.
How about the disingenuous behavior of the Historic And Landmark Review Board representative at yesterday's CB meeting? No wonder the County's being trashed with Dumb Growth.
Can't find Ball Family Heirs? They're still around and sued to preserve the Ball Family Burial Ground on Fairfax Drive in 2016. View the Recessed County Board Meeting on February 28, 2017, Agenda Item 31, at arlingtonva.us
It gets worse. Millennials played Cornhole on the steps of the War Memorial last weekend.
Ball Family Members sued to stop the desecration of the Ball Family Cemetery on Fairfax Drive opposite Ballston Metro Station three years ago.
LOL. Dog is God in Arlington.
Yes. There is about zero enforcement of rules and regulations vs. the free range behavior of special interests in the County.
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