Resources
The Ballston-Virginia Civic Association (BVSCA) - which is the civic association for the entire neighborhood - and certain neighboring properties are signatories and beneficiaries of the 7-10-1985 Deed of Covenant. As some of these documents from the 1980s have markings on them, we have retyped some of them to assist readers. Below we provide links to the originals and the retyped versions for each related to the BVSCA’s May 2022 letter and exhibits to the County Board related to the White Fleet and ART Bus Plans at the Quincy Site. Full Letter and Exhibits in one file (~36 MB PDF). See also the BVSCA webpage dedicated to the Quincy Site, and other resources such as BVSCA's February 2022 letter on the ART buses.
Deed of Covenant 7-10-1985. See the Original and the Retyped versions.
Exhibit G is the July 2, 1985 Letter from the Arlington County Planning Commission to the Arlington County Board. See the Original and the Retyped versions.
Exhibit H is an undated memo from the Site Plan Review Committee of the Arlington County Planning Commission to the Arlington County Planning Commission. It is an Attachment I to Exhibit G. See the Original and Retyped version
Exhibit I is the June 26, 1985 memo from the then-County Manager, Larry J. Brown, to the Arlington County Board. See the Original and Retyped versions.
The 1985 Covenant on the Quincy Site.
A Deed of Covenant, dated as of July 10, 1985, applies to a portion of the Quincy Site that is zoned “C-O-1.0” – roughly 28% of the 6.11 acre Quincy Site.
County Links
Below are links to various Quincy Site resources on County websites. Note, unfortunately there are many broken links on the County websites. This section will be expanded and corrected - check back.
JFAC
Joint Facilities Advisory Commission (JFAC). See especially the meeting information from the 2017 period and the specific "Buck Site" section. Readers should note that the County Board and School Board barred Quincy Site neighbors from being JFAC Commissioners and all applications from neighbors were denied in 2016. This resulted in JFAC members and staff being un- and mis-informed about many matters that JFAC was considering. Neighbors were left to participate only in the "public comment" section of JFAC meetings and the JFAC Chair did allow the neighborhood to give one presentation to JFAC members.
Arlington County Board and School Board joint meeting with JFAC - June 27, 2017. See the conversation here where the respective boards, JFAC Chair and County Manager discuss that bus use on the site will not occur.
County Manager memo to the County Board on JFAC - November 20, 2020. The Arlington Way website described the plan to, effectively, diminish JFAC.
County Board & CPHD Meetings
January 20, 2024 - Item 31. Use Permit Review (County Board) of a commercial parking lot; located at 1425 N. Quincy St. (RPC# 15-040-067).
December 20, 2022 - Item 12. Abandonment of the Right of Way (County Board)
May 14, 2022 - Item 28. County Board approval of the ART buses and White Fleet on the Quincy Site.
April 21, 2022. CPHD organized this meeting after BVSCA complained about the many flaws/errors in assessment by County Staff on the use permit and lack of process - though there were no meaningful acknowledgments of the assertions that BVSCA put forward in its letter of February 13, 2022, and of neighborhood concerns. Staff ignored or explained away many of the concerns from BVSCA and the neighborhood. Some video highlights: staff confirmed that the "temporary" use would not be "temporary"; the GLUP "Operations" designation was wrapped into a County-wide update with no way for the neighborhood to know that this was happening; the County had no concerns about environmental effects to the neighbors; that there would be no back-up beeping (which is not the case), etc, etc etc. Below are County provided resources for this meeting.
September 15, 2020 - Item 21. County Board approval of the Resubdivision of the Quincy Site.
December 14, 2021 - County Manager Report (no item number). This was the County's original attempt to put the buses on the site as a by-right use - wrong! Think about it - the original plan for the County involved the following. The head of DES called the BVSCA liaison to the site on a Friday afternoon in December 2021 (typical playbook of the Friday afternoon news dump) to say that the buses would be coming to the site in March 2022 and that everything planned was legal (wrong!), that all of the Board members had been briefed (and presumably supported this), and that it would be discussed (interpret - hidden) in a County Manager's briefing on December 14, 2021. The liaison had to ask for a neighborhood meeting with DES staff. At that meeting - December 9, 2021 - the neighbors alerted DES to problems with their plans...and this eventually led to the (illegal) use permit arrangement.
DES Maintained Sites - Note that there were earlier website pages that have been dropped and/or have many broken links.
Current DES website on Quincy matters.
January 20, 2024: County Board Site Use Permit review slides and recording.
November 29, 2023: Annual community meeting slides, recording, and summary
March 2023: Final landscaping plan based on the feedback received during the fall 2022 engagement period
October 12, 2022: Community briefing on the proposed landscaping and fence replacement plan
December 9, 2021: Live demonstration of buses maneuvering through the facility and community presentation about operations plans for temporary use
September 15, 2021: Noise analysis report
Note earlier resources are now missing.
Buck Property Development (older page - the County has removed many resources and redirected to the new site, above).