What Tysons Corner Needs as It Grows
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A task force's plan to redevelop Tysons Corner [front page, May 29] may eventually include "enough parks, schools, police stations and firehouses" to serve 70,000 or more new residents, but so far that isn't the case.
Whether the issue is playing fields, secondary schools or transportation, the task force, which was appointed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, has no workable strategy for accommodating the new population at Tysons. In most cases, these people will have to use already overstrained facilities in McLean, Vienna and elsewhere.
In recent months, task force leaders repeatedly have ignored concerns raised by county staff members and consultants, calling for ever more density.
Most of the community accepts that Tysons Corner will become more like a city, but we need and deserve better than the task force's propaganda and wishful thinking. We deserve a community that works for Fairfax's present and future residents.
CHARLIE HALL
Fairfax
T he writer is a member of the Greater Tysons Citizens Coalition and ran for county supervisor (Providence District) in 2007.
