Here Is How It Works in Vienna
We reported earlier on a desire to build apartments at Tapawingo and Glyndon.
Now it turns out that the Town Council is set to change the law to make this happen. Here is the evidence (PDF). This law change has one beneficiary: Steve Bukont. That's right, the Vienna Town Council is set to change the zoning code to make Steve Bukont money. This is not just a rezoning, it is a law change! Would they do that for you? What about the prior owner...do you think he would have sold to Bukont if he knew he could get this freebie from Maud and Jane?
Maud Robinson is a dishonest politician - the evidence is in. For those who may want to speak on the matter, the Planning Commission will hear it at a special session this Thursday night.
Comments
Well, it's hard to battle a corrupt city hall. If you live near the old 7-11 at Glyndon and Tapawingo, you can look forward to Steve Bukont building three 3-story residential units on top of a 1-story commercial unit in your single-family residential neighborhood. Thanks, Town Council... thanks a lot!
Posted by: Steve Bukont's Neighbors | October 23, 2006 05:26 PM
Bukont's neighbors are you dense? This law change is to get rid of the requirement that there must be a business in the building...this change gives our boy toy the ability to build the exact same structure as on Locust Street...except it will be 4 floors of apartments. You people can all drop dead, you never paid alms to me. I love to watch my unloyal subjects squirm!
Posted by: Mother Maud | October 24, 2006 08:35 AM
Hey Laurie, is this part of the pay back to Bukont for the sweet hart deal you cut with him on the sale of your house, or will you do the honorable thing and recuse yourself?
Posted by: Tractor Man | October 24, 2006 08:57 AM
I agree... this zoning law change is very unsavory. It turns a law intended to limit commercial zoning to primarily COMMERCIAL USE into a totally open-ended law that allows commercial zoning to become primarily multi-residential use. Commercial zoning can now be developed as residential. And why? Because 'we noticed some no conforming properties in Vienna's commercial corridor which we have no idea how they happened but now we want to fix them'. What a crock! The non-conforming property is the old 7-11 in a residential neighborhood... the ONLY island of commercial zoning in all of Vienna's residential neighborhoods and now the Town is going to fix that non-conformance by making a bastard out of all commercial zoning in Town. Does this make sense?... 'we screwed up some commercial zoning so to fix it, we are just going to rewrite the zoning law'! Who's logic is this! This is political corruption at work and the Town Attorney is pushing it through for Bukont's Town Council whores! That old 7-11 property should be rightfully rezoned R12.5 but instead, Bukont's grafters on Town Council are rewriting the zoning law so he can turn one property into four! What a bunch of crooks! Vote the bitches out!
Posted by: Steve Bukont's Neighbors | October 24, 2006 09:27 AM
Posted by: Macaca | October 24, 2006 10:54 AM
Wow,
We live in SE Vienna and have to drive by this site to leave our hood. Our suggestion is that the good developers of Vienna give back to the community that has put up with the mud and the eyesore construction by building us a park. A nice little one where our children can wait for the bus, and we can commune.
Not a sermon, just a thought.
Posted by: Nine Year Naive Native | October 25, 2006 05:28 PM
Like I commented in August:
They (TOV) allow developers to walk all over the rights of residents for the sake of the tax dollars that these behemoths generate. Then the TOV has the nerve to write about sidewalk safety in it's newsletter. How many streets are there with no sidewalks just a block from Vienna Elementary School.
Posted by: Vienna Resident | August 3, 2006 10:16 PM
Posted by: vienna resident | October 25, 2006 09:43 PM