County officials want offices instead. They have zoned land forthem because they believe they would encourage Metro usage andunclog roads in traffic-choked Northern Virginia. But county wisheshave been stymied by a real estate market that hasn't seen thesuburban locale as a good office site, and by protesting residentswho say that tall office buildings will overwhelm theirneighborhood.
"The Vienna site has been a troubled site," says Fairfax Countysupervisor Gerald E. Connolly, who represents the neighborhood butsupports office development there. "The market simply hasn'tresponded."
New apartment plans would still have to be approved by thecounty. But while residents have hotly opposed intense developmentof the site for commercial purposes, including a hotel, anapartment project may be acceptable politically.
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