Vienna's No. 1 Comedy Team: Darth Maud and Lieutenant Jane; Their Views on Vienna's Downtown Equal Failure

First, watch this clip:

Sounds great? Two nice elderly ladies speaking with passion about downtown Vienna!

Not exactly.

What is the true story that makes the motivations of Vienna's politicians look suspect? Robinson speaks of a "core". She means between Lawyers Road and Park Street on 123. This means the Vienna Town Council wants to pass a law to allow increased redevelopment on Maple Avenue/123 between those two streets. Sounds great!

Not so fast. None of this land will be redeveloped any time soon. Think about the actual properties in between these two streets:

Magruders? That's not going anywhere. The Town Green and Presbyterian Church. Well, no land to do anything there. Money and King Funeral Home? No, they are not moving. The old Anita's across from Magruders? That piece of land is so small that nothing can be done there unless it is combined with other properties. The Vienna library? No, that's not changing. Whole Foods? Ditto.

What does this all mean? Vienna will pass a law that sounds progressive in the local paper, but allows no change since there is no land. Nice. Thanks Maud and Jane. Thanks for the comedy as you fool no one.

Sadly, there are pieces of land outside of this idiotic and arbitrarily defined "core" ready right now to change. Marco Polo restaurant? Ready to be torn down tomorrow. Why is that property blackballed by Darth Maud?

There is no reason. There is no planning. We simply have an older lady with absolutely nothing going on except sitting on this Council lording over residents with whacked out pronouncements that mean zilch. Not unexpected, for if you read any of this site for more than 5 minutes, regardless of our editorial beliefs, Maud Robinson is clearly unbalanced.

Maybe others have no spine to stand up to her, but we are not just going to sit back and let her go unchecked because she is "elderly." She is in a position of power and she is hurting Vienna for the long term with her combination of no vision, no planning and selfish attitude.

Lastly, to answer Maud's question of "What kind of a Town do we want Vienna to be?" we say Vienna should have leaders who are not lost in time four decades ago. We want leaders who can actually make decisions that help Vienna, not leaders who play politics non-stop for their own self-aggrandizement. Notice that she has NO goal?

As a side note, Seeman has no clue that the study they are discussing, the one taxpayers paid $10,000 for, actually covers from Lawyers to Beulah. She clearly thinks the study was from Lawyers to Park. All Vienna citizens can rest in peace that Vienna's finest minds are at the helm.