George Lovelace v. Logic

In 1998 the Vienna Town Council voted to add a property to the Windover Heights Historic District. Then citizen George Lovelace stood up at the microphone to voice his support of adding a new house to the District without any review board approval. From the verbatim minutes of that meeting comes this Lovelace comment:

"What kind of a symbol would we set if we chose not to allow someone who WANTED to be in the District, to leave them out? I think we want to send a message that says we still are for historic preservation..."

Follow that logic? George Lovelace's logic to support adding a property to the Windover Heights Historic District was asinine. From that same Town Council meeting, then Town Council member Steve Briglia added more "logic":

"I also feel that once you are in [in the Windover Heights Historic District] you are going to have to come up with pretty compelling reasons to be let out. So if you are willing to be let in, I think that speaks highly. I think getting out may be a little harder the next time."

It is no longer 1950, it is 2006 and garden club style politics need to be retired once and for all. Vienna cannot afford to jeopardize its recent ranking as a great place to live.