Proposed Bad Infill on Sunset Drive in the News

You know an issue is getting big when it makes the Washington Post. Or maybe it's just a painfully slow news weekend. In today's Metro section, Post reporter Kirstin Downey fills us in on the controversy of a real estate investor who wants to tear down an old duplex, subdivide the land and build a set of new homes (Razing of Old House Opposed in Alexandria, October 8, 2007). Despite the fact that the home sits in an area designated as a federal and state historic area and that everyone from the neighborhood to the Planning Commission to the City Council opposes this project, it seems there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. And that's a shame. Sunset's a link from our neighborhood to Old Town on the other side and it seems to be turning into an ugly and unneighborly hodge podge of buildings that just don't fit in. Let's hope this owner comes to his senses and proposes something different.