Laine Hyde: At the Epicenter

Laine Hyde (230 Lovers Lane, NW) Has Been at the Forefront of Historic District Controversy


Laine Hyde, Historic Vienna, Inc. and Council Member Maud F. Robinson

Laine Hyde and Maud Robinson will go down in Vienna history as the two responsible for the destruction of Moorefield. Moorefield, unlike the Windover Heights Historic District, was actually something "historic". It was on the register at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. However, Hyde and Robinson led the charge to have the house demolished resulting in its removal from the National Trust.

Hyde and Robinson have both tried to spin that Moorefield was actually preserved. We have the pictures. There was no preservation.

Earlier when Laine Hyde (Laine Hyde is the current President of Historic Vienna, Inc.) sat on the Windover Heights Board of Review and approved 316 Windover Avenue's second application what guidelines did she and others use? What guidelines did she use to deny a new house at 201 Windover? What's the point? There are no rules. If you are a resident forced to go before this review board you go before people like Laine Hyde who make up the rules on the fly. And regardless of how many lawsuits Hyde threatens over this web site -- the truth is our defense.

Listen to the public record of Laine Hyde denying 201 Windover in the Vienna Historic District:

"My concern is only the appropriateness for the neighborhood. As Mr. Sloan says I don't think any feature, any, any single feature is any way reminiscent or evocative of the historic district or feels of a historic district. I don't have a problem with the size of the house. It is the mass of the house. I make a distinction between those two things."

Nothing Hyde says is ground in any law. She is simply foisting her personal beliefs upon another citizen. This man was forced to not build his dream home due to Laine Hyde and others.