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Historic District Pinocchios

This post, critical of Vienna's historic register sham, brought forward this feedback from a Vienna resident:

The Windover Heights Historic District appears to be not about historic preservation, but all about neighborhood preservation. A group of individuals operating within the Town government under the guise of historic preservation are self-empowered to judge what a property owner can and cannot do with their property within this district according to their own subjective opinion of what they like and don't like. They have aborted any legitimacy of this district allegedly formed for historic preservation by their unprofessional, capricious, and self-serving decisions to allow or not allow development within the district. Take a 'Walk on the Hill' and you will see an exclusive westward hilltop neighborhood in Vienna that has a lot of pretty houses and much new development. The historic district is not about history; it is about select property owners being allowed to control what gets built next door. The Town can not win any lawsuits over this charade and should stop wasting our tax dollars defending this unfounded "historic district". It is not unreasonable to want to control development in a cutesy section of Town, but it is unacceptable to attempt to do so under a false and arbitrary pretense of historic preservation and with no legal basis. I wonder why the Town newsletter doesn't mention that the Town is being sued? It's all rather embarassing, I suspect!