Church Street Parking Problem?

I guess I don't understand what is being said here - what is the proposal exactly? Is one property owner to forfeit his land so all others have parking? I'm all for meters along Church Street. I pay for parking everywhere but here: DC, Arlington, Alexandria.

If the town was safe to walk around, more people would walk to Church Street instead of driving. Why not shift some of your energies to BUILDING MORE SIDEWALKS AND MAKING THE CURRENT ONES SAFER?!

I could hardly wait for you to post this one. I laughed my ass off when I read it. Shouldn't the object be to get parking off Church St. How else do you make it walkable. Be nice if they got the jaywalkers off the street. Hey, they stole parking from Safeway so I guess they can now take over the rest of the town.

I'm tired of more vehicles...more parking...more vehicles...more parking. Can't we have regular daytime and evening trolley bus routes like the one along King Street in Alexandria picking up residents and taking them "downtown" and then taking them back to their neighborhoods?

I think we need to tear up Joan Lillis' house (a teardown by anyone's standards) and put up a parking lot with a beautiful white paving stone pattern, and employ a bus system to run between the nearly formed parking garage and Church Street. Seeing as how we won't get sidewalks, this really makes sense. When Lillis leaves, (she will eventually, she hates Vienna, all she does is complain) her house will be torn down, we may as well do it now and save the town of Vienna a lot of money and offer both some better than her hut of a house, and free parking and less clutter along Church street. I know this may sound mean and silly, but if you really think about it, it makes sense, we can apply for a stimulus package to get it paid for, and put up nice benches on her lot to have older people to sit when they are waiting for the shuttle bus as described by G. Lovelace in years past. This is really the best solution, and I don't think it will be bad... Lillis can move somewhere else, and she will be happier... wouldn't that be nice? and we could solve our parking problem. So, anyone wishing to donate their property to the town for parking could get maybe say, free tickets to concerts along the town green or something like that, or a free meal at the Vienna Inn. We should see if we can get Lillis to leave as soon as possible, because I hate looking for a parking place along church street, and anyone who visits the shops there would agree that parking is a damned problem that needs to be addressed and might I add, soon!

Wad'ya think Maud, you in or out? You should get the town to buy her land like you did for the Town Green, and we could call the new parking lot, Lillis Station, or some other cutesy name, I know, we can have a contest as to what to call it. Yes, Yes...

The success of a private business starts with planning. If you start a business not knowing the parking situation, you fail. You don't covet your neighbors property. There are only several businesses which are generating the overall necessity for parking. For some reason they established their business on Church Street knowing the parking was inadequate. When one talks about the designated parking spaces along Dominion Road they need to understand that the businesses are renting the parking space from the Park Authority. They are using the trail property for parking. Some business have doubled their parking ability by putting two cars in one space with one of the cars precariously hanging over the W&OD trail. The park employee I spoke to said they rent the property because "they need the money". I am more inclined to believe that they succumbed to the Towns' pressure.

4OD trail.

How long was Maud coveting the land she stole (under the guise of "improvements") from the business sector to put in her Town Brown? When our own government (Maud Robinson) exhibits such poor judgment and contemptuous behavior without any real forward thinking and planning for long term vision with Vienna best interests in mind, you get the same type of behavior from people like Steve Bukont building whatever gave him the highest return on his dollar, and to hell with what could have been a wonderful mixture of business activity and government participation. Steve Bukont got away with sidewalks that are inadequate for pedestrian use, and parking that is abysmal, simply because we have idiots running the show. They don't have any sense and forward thinking about what Vienna really needs and usually acts impulsively like children wanting their cake and ice cream without any sense of the balanced meals they should be eating first.
The towns leaders could stand to diet a little and do what is right for Vienna, but I won't hold my breath, as they will continue to opt for the fat and sugar and let the town be damned. Micheal Moore would be proud of the corruption deep seated in our elected officials, and this is so very obvious when people like Seeman and Robinson had to resort to election fraud and apathy to keep getting elected. Right? Rhoda Stevens?... When are you going to have enough courage to admit and tell why you did what you did? Or will you go by the wayside with the label of one deranged fruitcake to your grave? Too bad Maud will always have you tagged with these well deserved labels...Rhoda Stevens, the simple-minded dupe of the Vienna Moonbats!!!

Really Laurie? When you were campaigning, I'm sure your heard all about the nastiness and crime going down at the Vienna Park Apartments and Cedar Park Shopping Center, and you choose to write about Church Street Parking? Last I heard, the lack of parking never robbed anyone, stole their property, or knifed anyone. I also don't think there is prostitution on Church street, but you can sure find those ladies working it over at Cedar Park. Oh, and I don't think you have folks threatening to kill security guards over on Church street either.

So Laurie, when do you think might get around to caring what goes on over here?

If she cannot make useful comparisons to tribal communities in Third World countries, it's not worth her time and energy.

Seriously, though, how did she go from "working together" to "give up your parking lot, dammit?!"

Just discovered that the Church Street business plan is patterned after the MONOPOLY board game. BTW there is a large unused parking lot behind Magruder's Grocery which somehow is being negleted in town planning. What's up? Does anyone know?