Comments on: Morning Notes

By: Suburban Not Urban

Suburban Not Urban — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:54:15 +0000

Sorry Dude, but I watched a board meeting where he litterally asked what the symbol for a door was on a drawing. This is one of the folks that litterly have the go/no go vote on many million dollar Site Plans – and thats just one example.

By: motherseer

motherseer — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:42:07 +0000

What the heck is wrong with you people? You sound like the old guys in the balcony on the Muppet Show. How have you determined that Walter Tejada is the least qualified member of the board? The policy of the Board is LITERALLY to take turns as chairman. This is not a clever politically astute observation – it’s WHAT THEY DO. Before you start making fun of a process you should at least know what it is. Every board member will serve as chairman eventually unless they leave after one term. Walter Tejada is an exemplary public servant who always has the interests of the least among us foremost in mind. Sorry if that doesn’t suit your over-privileged agenda. Walter Tejada does an excellent job & I am looking forward to his chairmanship – he did an excellent job last time. You people have way too little to do. What have you done for your community lately? I’m sure you’ll say some nonsense like “pay a sh–load of taxes.” Big whoop. Get a life, mini-minds.

By: Lee-n-Glebe

Lee-n-Glebe — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:58:34 +0000

I don’t see where it says that it debt, but I’ve been known to miss stuff.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:40:11 +0000

State law says the property should be assessed at 100% of fair market value. Zoning is most likely used to ensure sales comparisons are of similar properties.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:38:13 +0000

Two things:

1 – The article states that the property sold for $2.86 million or $177 per sq ft. meaning around 16,000 sq ft were sold. The RPC (19014026) for the address listed (and that is assessed at $642,400) is only 9,177 sq ft. It is highly likely that the adjacent parcels (RPC 19014023, RPC 19014049) which are also owned by Mario’s Land Corporation with sizes of 6,624 sq ft and 279 sq ft respectively and assessed land values of $463,700 $8,300 were included in the sale meaning the county was collecting taxes on $1,114,400 of assessed value.

2 – Assessments are supposed to be set at fair market value. The only evidence of fair market value are prices paid for similar properties. Logically sales prices in a time of rising prices will be higher than assessments because assessments respond to sales prices.

By: Curious George

Curious George — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:43:24 +0000

Or you can go to the 7-11 just across the street from Virginia Square metro for a better selection of 40s. We also tried to set up a meth industry but that didn’t work out.

By: Clarendon

Clarendon — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:33:24 +0000

There’s a small store at the Va Sq Metro where you can get a 40 oz in a bag to tie you over until you reach O’Sullivans..

By: Mary-Austin

Mary-Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:23:05 +0000

I know right…I have a co-worker that always says Harris Teeter’s and Target’s.

By: Mary-Austin

Mary-Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:19:25 +0000

Arlington is becoming less Latino.
Maybe we should add a 23 year old IT consultant/frat dude to the board to recognize the changing demographics?

By: dang!

dang! — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:49:27 +0000

yeppers. its a dead zone from Ballston to Clarendon….last stop on Fairfax is pines o’ florence…until o’sullivans/NorthsideSocial….and over on Wilson last ‘decent’ stop is Wiinky’s until….silver diner

If one were to arrange a pub crawl from Rosslyn to Glebe…there would be a big ole dry spot after Clarendon until they got to the Baileys-CarPool zone…I’m just saying…its a community issue that hopefully can be addressed soon…
what with about 1500 housing units coming up in the next 3 years around here !