The numbers don't add up

According to Fairfax County's Anticipating the Future study, Gerald Connolly states "We have taken the ideal of the American melting pot and made it real".

Most Cultural Anthropologists agree that the melting pot idea was one that envisioned stripping the cultural diversity from a person, and assimilating them into the mainstream "American way". It is more tossed salad characteristic that makes us great.

It is this outdated form of thought, from these old school leaders that keeps us in the current state of economic and social repression leading to recession and depression.

So in looking deeper at this study, some conclusions can be drawn.

1. The County is more populated than the entire state of Montana, yet Missoula has topped the rankings of walkable towns for years. If you don't believe me check here: http://www.walkable.org/article2.htm

We are not trying hard enough folks.

2. The County is supposed to be entering post-suburbanization. Ok, we admit that the era of large farm parcels that sold out to developers in the 1960's-1980's has pretty much ended, but the entire County is a suburb. Until it realizes that people outside of the County come here, it will never shake this mentality. There needs to be a more efficient way to move these people other than adding lanes to I-66, building overpasses, and more and more strip malls catering to the driver.

3. The study states that job growth will outpace housing. Duh. There is a general jobs:housing ratio issue throughout all of NOVA, far too many jobs per available houses = sprawl and enhances the suburb.


TELECOMMUTING, I'm telling you it is a simple solution. Another simple solution, send Connolly to Congress so he can keep practicing 40 year old cultural, political, and planning practices somewhere else, and perhaps Metro extension will be his pet project and Dulles Rail may happen.