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NCAC
Meeting
June 14, 2001
Won Some/Lost Some
The good news
is that both the Little Falls and Minor Hill project were approved.
The bad news is that both projects were cut back significantly.
The Neighborhood
Conservation Advisory Committee met on 14 June to discuss and vote on
the 41 projects which were submitted by participating neighborhoods
for funding under the second round of the 2000 Neighborhood Conservation
Bond. These 41 projects represented a total cost of $7.7 million. NCAC
had about $2 million to spend. Williamsburg submitted two projects:
- Little Falls
Project ($332,000) with 70 NC points (click here
for a discussion of the NCAC points
system), tying with two other "new" neighborhoods for
the highest number of points.
- Minor Hill ($170,000)
with 50 NCAC points and 5th highest project.
Ellen Jones presented
the WCA projects. Ann Rudd, our NCAC representative also attended the
meeting.
After the project
presentations, a lively discussion ensued on which ones to fund.
- WCA and the
other "new" neighborhoods (with the top-ranked projects)
favored funding by going straight down the points list.
- Some of the "older"
neighborhoods (whose projects were lower ranked because they had already
used up their Big Four first projects) favored funding only neighborhood
priority one projects.
- A third option
was to scale back the "new" neighborhood projects on top
of the points list so that an additional four projects could be funded.
NC members voted
in favor of a revised Option Three.
- Williamsburg
was asked to scale back our Little Falls project by deferring the
North Nottingham to North Lexington Street portion.
- Williamsburg
was also asked to defer the Minor Hill project altogether, but –
thanks to a happy intervention on the part of a kindred spirit from
a neighboring civic association – we succeeded in salvaging the
use/development plan portion of it.
County Board Approval: The Arlington County Board approved these
two scaled-back projects on 8 September, 2001, as part of a $2.1 million
package of sixteen projects. This was the largest NCAC funding round
in the history of the program, which is still seriously under-funded.
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