Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:30 PM		Meeting Announcement of Green Acres and SEFCA Civic Associations
	The reason we are meeting as Civic Associations is to protect the quality of life in our neighborhood by presenting our requests to the City Council and the Mayor. The immediate problem is there is a tentative plan before the City Council to rent the Green Acres School to George Mason University for $500,000 a year. GMU has a plan to open a road from their parking lot into the school. This could cause a great deal of traffic as it would create a new entrance to the University right through our homes and residences. Students would be entering the school parking lot at all hours in great numbers. We need to oppose this plan and assure that less traffic impacts our neighborhood rather than more. One of the most common ways for a neighborhood to deteriorate is for Cut-Through and Commuter Traffic to be allowed to race through residential neighborhoods. It is a sure slum building approach. If you will notice, all the new “good” residential developments allow only one way in and the same way out. This enhances property values and the safety and security of residents. The older housing in Fairfax is being trashed by cut through traffic. Ideally every street and neighborhood in Fairfax should be a cul de sac of some sort. It could be done if we had a City Council that understood the problems inherent in uncontrolled traffic impacting fragile older residential neighborhoods. We must make our voices heard. It is not just our homes that are so impacted but thousands of others in the city. Our voters vote and should make it clear they will only support those elected officials who vote consistently to protect our older neighborhoods the same way newer developments are protected from the noise, crime and derogation of the quality of life. Also George Mason Blvd is now stalled and it has become a road that goes nowhere. We need to have this road completed this Spring and Summer. Whatever is required needs to be done. Get Imminent Domain against the County to get back control of our school from the County, or pressure or shame them into giving it up, so we can put our road through that was intended to give some relief from the flood of traffic into GMU. The alternate plan of going around the school should and can be implemented right away. There is no excuse not to be able to do that. Then close off school street and use every method to get the County out of that school that we never should have sold to them anyway. These poor performances are on a par with the fiasco of putting a Harley Davidson Dealership in this City with all the motorcycles and noise. That is not a good business for a residential town. The City Council will be Meeting at the same time we meet. We will meet in the Library on the 3^rd floor down the hall from the City Council meeting to get ourselves together to present our case to the Council. If we do nothing unfriendly forces will do nothing for us.