ZONING IN DRANESVILLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200460001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 9, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

NQ HERN VIRGI"`T.A
SUN. 7
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-
JUL .9 1964
STATINTL
Zortifag In
.Dranesville
Editor, Jic SUN:
To what extent Ou
litical organization assume , re-
responsibility of- the caliber and
philosophy of candidates it spon-
sors for public office, and for
their actions subsequent to elcc
tion? Does that responsibility
,, come to an end once the work
.. of promoting a campaign has
been successfully concluded? 0
should it continue? These arc
questions which are raised b
recent publicity given 'to the pro-
nouncements of individual mem-
bers of the Fairfax County Boaz
of Supervisors.
The' board has representative
from seven separate districts
'Elected last Fall were 5 Demo-
crats,, 1 Republican, and 1 In-
dependent. The Independent, Har.
1 riet Bradley, represents Dranes
ville District in which both Mc
Loan and Great Falls arc 10
cited,
~t e
?
CPYRGHT
t
Li'l If
and o- progress the views of a + district his record is a pure one.
majority of our citizens. We are He has voted for them all -
also pleased that hers has not geed and bad.
been a parochial approach; she The Republican is reported to
has shown as mzuch concern for acknowledge that Fairfax County
the welfare of the entire county. is already overzoned for apart-
as for that of her? owl' district. nients but suggests that since,
But we now have reason to won- in his view, development will
I der what her colleagues have in: not take. place in outlying areas
store. for us. during the next five years per-
The matter of zoning and, re- hops McLean is appropriate for
g been a burning issue in our .! its;.
lorsists tart population density has still additional interim overzon-
an area community. The Ignored is the statistical. data
rrywood zoning dispute was in the "Multiple Family Housing
best known, but by no means Study" recently published by the
only rallying point for com county which shows that of 1,573
unity sentiment which favors acres already zoned for apart-
owth - but along certain lines.nnents in Fairfax County, 273
e desire for relaatively low dcu- acres (14.3 per cent) are in the
y, graceful development is . a McLean "Planning District." In
ong one, and. it persists. It the high rise category - the most
among Domocrats, Ito-? dense use - 154 of the 253 acres
teit:her,
-The newspapers, however, .'
luote one supervisor, a Demo-
?rat, as stating that the better
lace for apartmes and other
dgh density development is Mc-
an, close to the entrance to,
I Vashington and next to the riv,
r. This view, of course, cell-'
"
"
Year 2000 Plan
radicts the ,
loveloped by the National Cipi-
the McLean com-munttj% of 50.6
acres zoned for town or row
houses in Fairfax County, 30.9
are in McLean. This certainly is
our "fair share" which.' one. su-
pervisor has contended'.: we
not yet have.
Still further, we already have
planned and' wider way the larg-
est industrial - commercial cone-
plex in the .county at Tyson's
al Planning Commission and sup-. ! ?C6rner adjacent to still another
)orted in principle by our Cowl- substantial existing. commercial
y Board. development at the center of Mc-
Another Democrat describes Lean. And at Langley we. have
is as "vulnerable," and is rc- the C.I.A. building the second
x;rted to state that because - ? .- ? ` " ' ? . . 1"
She was selected as a caondi
date because of her conviction
and voting iccord displayed dur
ing five years' service on tin
County Planning Commission
We who helped to elect her' fee
Responsible to the public fe
what she does. We have note
with satisfaction the .fact" tha
'her areas have .been subjected
o high density development, 50 how'd McLean:' Interesti ngly
.rough, his .district is MYft. Ver-=
I ion which shares wills us eo.m
non problems and characleris--`
cs.
r'~o ra:t s a. twelve
a
4-616,1 ipred~Ina
she has workSattBZf~
the interests of our residents re
i ;gtudiess of political _,AgPli*atiO
ct+tion placed lmfore hini. Lr our
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largest or fief. structure in to
state of Virginia.
We now must ask what course
a majority of the board proposes
to follow in guiding future growth
in cur area. If it is the intention
of Democrats, or Republicans for
that matter, from other districts
to force upon its a changed pat-
tern of growth against the wishes
of our citizenry, then the partyorganization which put thorn in
office should accept a share of
the blame.. The selection and
election of public officials is
serious business. It is not a
game which once ration can be
forgotten until the next time.
The party organization should be
willing to be held accountable
for the responsiveness of and the
record compiled by the people
it sponsors for public office,
Moreover, the next Dranes-
ville District candidate for stt-
peivisor sponsored by the same
political organization should be
expected not to reject what his
fellows may have done. He, too,
should shoulder a measure of
the responsibility. To do less is
to adnilt that the party, its power
structure, and its political phi-
losophy have no sense of Pro-
gram or meaning at the local
CLIVE L. DUVAL, 2d
Chairman
DranesviUe Independent
' ? Force
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