Monday June 2 Vienna Town Hall 8pm

I can't decide whether to stay home and watch the proceedings on TV or walk to Vienna Town Hall, crossing Maple Ave. via the pedestrian bridge.

Hell must have frozen over last night, Maud actually voted to allow something she has been against for so many years...

Did she take a spoon full of sugar?

Many people think this decision was pre-ordained and that this was a sacrifice vote for the law suits filed against the TOV over 2 years ago, but is this too little too late?

This writer seems to think so. The fact that this homeowner even had to spend time and money to get this decision, a decision that should have been made by the abusive and misguided Sienicki and Anderson, is proof enough that the whole system is out of control, and peoples rights are being abused.

All for what?

Maud Robinson proved last night that she knew the whole historic district issue has gotten out of hand, and there was no way she could vote to abuse property owners anymore, but I still wonder if this was simply the advice of the TOV attorney covering the ongoing lawsuits.

Cole mentioned that she voted against the homeowners because that the homeowner said herself that her new house was silly and out of place in the historic district. I cannot believe she calls herself a thinking person? It's painfully obvious she didn't read the minutes. The homeowners in no way state this at all, she was telling Anderson and Sienicki that their new house had to go in the same place on their property, or else it would look silly, she in no way state that the house was silly. Cole, you need to shut up, you HAVE PROVED YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. If you do want to say something even half way intelligent, read the entire minutes 2-3 times so you don't appear like such a dunce.

As for George Lovelace... Are you honest enough to tell us who wrote your written speech, that was so obviously written with the ongoing lawsuits involved? How can you vote for a district that was initially contrived to keep the Blacks out of this area? Think, Mr. Lovelace, this whole area is alive with rich Black American history, and with many older homes in the poorer black bordering lots to the Historic District, and even the Louise Archer school, with its rich history and importance to Black History in Vienna, and you sit their and still act as someones mouth-piece. Who is this person, Mr. Lovelace?

That leaves Mayor Seeman, who wants you to think that these homeowners are not abiding by the zoning laws and regulations by her comments that she voted against them because she did not think they were adhering to our present zoning regulations. Are you serious, please tell us what laws or zoning regulations that these homeowners are defying with their proposal? Even Charles Anderson stated that their proposal was in full compliance to Vienna's and Fairfax County's Zoning Laws and regulations. If you failed to recognize that fact when you read the minutes, even Greg Hembree himself said this too, that they were in full compliance with their submitted proposal.

So, your comments that these homeowners were somehow not abiding by the law is absurd. A mayor should be more intelligent or at least informed and should not be making statements that suggest that the long time homeowners are not abiding by the laws and regulations of Vienna and Fairfax County. Did you get the same talking points that George Lovelace received?

This decision was the only decision that should have been made, but it should have been made by Sienicki and Anderson. The very simple fact that these homeowners had to spend more time and money to go before the Town Council is wrong, abusive, and totally unnecessary.

I am glad to see that these homeowners prevailed, but I am not happy that abuses still continue. You can witness this when Cole, Seeman, Lovelace, and Robinson try to make up statements that were NOT said in the initial review and decision by Sienicki and Anderson in the Windover Review Board meeting, but as we have no televised meetings, no one is able to tell the difference. That, my friends is the biggest travesty of justice and evidence of perhaps the greatest abuse by these elected officials to the citizens of Vienna.

Seems to me that this issue should not have been decided by uninformed persons who wish to impose their own desires but by the Town Attorney based on the interpretation of the ordinance. Simple as that.