I really shouldn’t get started and, if this post weren’t leading to such a wildly amusing place, I wouldn’t. Neighborhood associations do some wonderful things in distressed communities, pursuing economic development and other progressive neighborhood improvements. But, in more affluent locations, as far as I can tell they exist mainly to stand in the way of any evolutionary change, no matter how incremental or benign.
Take the case of the Hillbrook – Tall Oaks Civic Association, representing 266 homes in the northern Virginia suburb of Annandale, which spent several years fighting the addition of 7,000 square feet and 44 – yes, 44 – students to the Montessori School pictured below.
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