Slight Changes for Falkland North; Increases Units
By Silver Springer • Sep 20th, 2007 • Category: Real Estate
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Little has changed for the planned Falkland North project along East-West Highway but Chairman of Home Properties; Nelson Leenhouts got an ear full from residents living in the existing 1938 structures.
Residents complained that they were not informed about changes to the project.
The alterations were minimal since the last community meeting in February. The updated plans keep the Harris Teeter and overall site plan but the Leenhouts noted that the number of units have been increased from 1,020 to 1,059, including 133 MPDUs.
The main focus of the update was taking into consideration the input from the community about the public use space.
The public space sitting in the center of the development was increased to about one and a half acres. Instead stair leading into the park the entire area was dropped about 6 feet to sit flush with the side walk along East-West Highway.
An upscale sit-down restaurant would be accessible only by going through the park, to encourage it’s use.
Attendees also didn’t like the 1,400 parking spaces split between the retail and apartments, one attendee called it a “traffic nightmareâ€.
Falkland North is three months behind schedule but is planned to start construction in 2009.
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The entire DC area is a traffic nightmare. Move the project a few miles north and you still have a traffic nightmare. All you lose is the point of origin. Until people give up their single occupancy, mobile phone booths for public transportation, the traffic will get worse, regardless of where you build.
(Sarcasm) But don’t event think about putting a Purple Line through the Rock Creek old growth forest.
yea… why kill a few trees, whe we can kill them all with acid rain. For every tree the Purple Line removes, a tree should be planted on the “dust bowl” they call The National Mall.
Not sure what all the fuss is about sharing a garage…except that it probably comes from people not familiar with the concept. It is very common in mixed use spaces with garages….the public has dedicated spaces and the apartments have dedicated spaces.
The really big problem will come at the single entry off E-W Hwy, particularly on weekends when the Harris Teeter (by far, the best grocery store in this region, next to Wegman’s perhaps) is mobbed by consumers desperate for it’s product.
How come there can’t be a secondary exit or entry, for example from the service road on the North side of the property? Is it because at this grade that level will be occupied with revenue generating apartments?
My money says the county will force them to come up with a second point of access.