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Zoning Administrator Report on Bukont Projects

Here is Greg Hembree's Staff Report (PDF) on Bukont's two new projects. Hembree is Vienna's Zoning Administrator.

Posted by Historic Vienna Posts on April 8, 2007 08:15 PM |

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My notes:

  • It is indeed telling that Bukont has addressed this rezoning proposal to the Mayor and Town Council before the May election.

  • Page 1 - Bukont proposes transfering zoning credits between neighborhoods much like the transfer of air pollution credits for sulfur dioxide emissions between air polluters... now that's very fitting, but it defeats the whole point of property zoning. Bukont's proposal is all about Bukont and not about anyone else... typical Bukont.

  • Page 3 - Staff report concludes that the subject properties are 'fully eligible for placement in a transitional T-Zone per the preceding paragraph'. Perhaps so, but Bukont is not proposing transistional zoning... 'professional office uses fully compatible with SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USES'... Bukont is proposing RM-2 VERY HIGH-DENSITY multi-family residential zoning with an underground parking garage. Not the same thing at all! And then he argues that he could build much worse density under true transitional zoning (or just two really big stupid houses)... that's a debateable threat... he would still have to get Town approval. Bottom line... Bukont's RM-2 rezoning proposal is NOT transitional zoning and is NOT compatible with single-family residential zoning. RM-2 is not RS16.

  • Page 4 - Staff report concludes that Bukont's proposal would greatly impact neighboring residential properties. Obviously!

  • Page 4 - Staff report points out that the Town's Comprehensive Plan 2006 recommends that future "proposed land use pattern should remain single-family detached residential". Stick to the Plan, Vienna! Don't let Madams Seeman and Cole sell off Vienna one single-family residential lot at a time to the highest bidder.

  • Page 4 - Townhouses and multi-family zones provide a transition (not a T-ZONE!) between the "very high-density commercial/industrial zones" and the low-density areas of single-family detached homes and "only in limited situations" to "prevent encroachment of commercial activities into these areas". ONE: The commercial areas near Bukont's land grab are NOT very high-density/industrial and there is no encroachment... what is is already. TWO: Bukont's high-density multi-residential proposal IS the encroachment... Bukont is the one limited to trying to exploit the only properties he can fit his bulldozer on. Go ask any resident living there... ask them if they want the good tooth fairy Bukont to build them a nice and comfy "appropriate and necessary" high-density multi-residential housing complex transistion in their neighborhood.

    • No need to go on. I commend the staff report for its excellent review of Bukont's two rezoning proposals. And I agree with their recommendations. Deny Bukont's Berry Street rezoning and allow his Tapawingo rezoning. He's probably going to back out of the Tapawingo rezoning anyway and keep it commercial so he can build his offices there.

    So the buck has been passed to the Planning Commission. Watch their votes, Vienna!

    Posted by: Town Green | April 8, 2007 10:49 AM

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