Turn down the 444 Maple Avenue application and send it back to the drawing board, Now!

Replacing three existing buildings with a single building larger than a football field at the busiest intersection in the Town of Vienna is inconsistent with the small-town Intent of the Comprehensive Plan, the Maple Avenue Vision, and the MAC Zoning Regulations. It's design is fraught with unresolved problems involving traffic congestion on Maple and Nutley; traffic and pedestrian safety on neighborhood streets ; the ability of fire fighters to respond effectively; building height, mass, and density; lack of publicly-accessible and pedestrian-friendly open space; subsurface water depletion issues; unidentified costs to the Town to upgrade its infrastructure; and the design's precedent-setting influence on future development along Maple Avenue moving forward.
Turn down the 444 Maple Ave application and send this poorly conceived design back to the drawing board; put the MAC zoning regulations on hold to allow proper time for review and re-wording to make them consistent with smart growth and MAC's original intent "to ensure that development along the corridor promotes Vienna's small-town character and does not compromise the character of residential neighborhoods."