Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Crestmont residents see an end to five years of bus noise and exhaust.
Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase property at the Pickett Road tank farm for 50 Fairfax County Public Schools buses, a decision that ends five years of frustration for Crestmont residents and creates new concerns for those living near the tank farm. Carl Jennison, who lives directly across the entrance to the Eleven Oaks site where the buses are currently kept, was pleased with the decision. Jennison, who is also the president of the Crestmont Home Owners Association, described waking up at 4:30 a.m. every school day thanks to the sounds of bus driver chatter, as well as the starting of 50 buses, their idling diesel engines and their wheels as they crunch over the gravel lot. "We've been patient, working with the city …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Though city officials say latest plan is best option, Comstock HOA cites safety, environmental concerns in opposition to proposal.
Fairfax City officials believe they've found the only suitable spot to park the 50 school buses they've tried to relocate for the better part of the past decade. But council members are facing the same conflicts — safety and environmental concerns from neighbors — that have eliminated half a dozen sites in the five-year search to move the buses from the site of the former Eleven Oaks school. Fairfax City purchased the Eleven Oaks property, on School Street, from Fairfax County in 2007, intending to move those buses out of the neighborhood and build additional residences in their place. The city hired Grubb & Ellis Company, a real estate advisory firm, to help identify and narrow down possible locations for the buses. The company logged …
Monday, April 30, 2012
He seeks his third term on council.
Steve Stombres agrees that economic development and fiscal responsibility will be the new council's biggest challenges. But environmental concerns also weigh heavily on his mind. The two-term councilman hopes his emphasis on tank farm and recycling issues will give him an edge in the May 1 election. "It was pretty obvious that I could make a difference on the council, but it was hard to come in and just have an impact," he said about his first term in 2008. "I thought recycling was where I could make a difference." Stombres went to work improving the city's recycling rate. He took recycling on as his pet project, measuring how much Fairfax City residents and businesses recycle, helped modernize green ordinances, trained volunteers and …
Dewey
2:01 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Does someone suggest locating this lot in one of our parks!? Or, should the community outlaw school buses? Crestmont folks didn't want buses firing up just feet from their homes, on land upon which our community could do so much more ( and promised to do so when it was purchased!). The recently approved SOLUTION does just that ... SOLVES ... a huge problem. The buses will be HUNDREDS of feet from… more ›