People treated it pretty seriously. It was treated as if it was a real event. |
The goal we set out to accomplish was to clean up the corner of Alabama Drive and Elden. And, in the first week it looks like we've been successful. But, there is still a lot of work to be done with the property owners along Elden Street to ensure the area stays clean in the future. |
The lawsuit challenges the taxpayer money being used. But, they started out saying the town was wrong in approving the conditional use permit. They have now shifted their argument to focus on the expenditure of taxpayer funds. |
The whole idea is to require property, building and land-use development decisions to be made with the best practices available to them at the time. |
There have been additional discussions regarding the land assemblage. There's also been concern about changing the conceptual phase and whether or not that's called for or allowed under the PPEA process. |
There is still a possibility about the [land] assemblage. There is a possibility that we can pull this together and move forward. |
They were cramped, overcrowded and they didn't have rooms to interview suspects in. |
This is an important enough project that we need to get it done right, rather than get it done quickly. |
Ultimately, we've come to a log jam. |
We all expected [a center] would open this year. But I don't think we anticipated there would be the national attention and the opposition, which just made it more cumbersome. |
We were able to see who would declare a state of emergency, and what that means procedurally. |
We've been through quite a lot in Herndon over the last three months. We have requested they [the congressmen] take action and that they take it sooner rather than later. |