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From YouTube: NewsMakers July20
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NewsMakers is a news program featuringlocal stories in Arlington County
A
The
new
cultural
center
gets
the
green
light,
but
not
all
agree.
It's
a
good
idea
we'll
find
out
what
the
new
cultural
center
has
in
store
and
when
doors
will
be
open
to
the
public,
find
out
why
the
brompton
zat
cherrydale
has
stood
unfinished
for
three
years
and
what
is
going
to
happen
to
it
will
also
discover
the
neighborhood
conservation
program
that
allows
residents
to
decide
how
to
spend
money
in
their
neighborhoods.
B
A
Arlington
County
Board
has
approved
plans
to
transform
the
former
museum
site
in
Rosslyn
into
a
cultural
center.
The
center
is
expected
to
bring
more
evening
and
weekend
activity
into
Rosslyn.
The
county
board
meeting
was
filled
with
a
majority
of
supporters
for
the
recommendation.
If
you
build
it,
they
will
come,
but
there
were
those
who
opposed.
If
the
county
were
to
cash
out
the
lease
arrangement,
they
would
receive
10
million
for
the
value
of
the
public
benefits.
Now.
C
B
Question
that
has
come
up
time
and
again
is
G.
If
you
cashed
out
that
lease
arrangement
and
took
the
10
million,
you
could
do
so
many
other
things
with
it.
I
have
to
say
that
that
just
is
not
true.
That
site
plan
amendment
that
generated
the
10
million
dollars
of
value
that
we
are
using
in
this
project
was
a
site
plan.
B
Amendment
for
a
project
in
Rosslyn
on
1812,
north
moore
street,
and
the
public
benefit
was
intended
to
be
used
in
Rosslyn
I
believe
that
there
is
no
better
use
for
that
money
than
to
put
it
all
together
and
to
try
to
create
something
that's
bigger
than
its
parts
and
that's
what
this
cultural
center
does.
So
that's
the
that's
really
the
answer
on
that
10
million.
We
are
not
trading
off
other
things,
because
that
10
million
would
have
to
be
spent
in
Rosslyn
in.
D
The
end
people
can
say
there
are
resources
going
here
that
conceivably,
you
could
do
something
else
with
and
they're
right.
But
the
question
is:
what
kind
of
return
do
we
have
in
the
long
run,
because
we
have
to
not
only
get
through
the
immediate
economic
crisis
that
the
country,
our
region
and
our
locality
faces?
We
have
to
think
about
what
the
benefits
are
in
long
time.
What
kind
of
position
is
this
County
going
to
be
in
two
years
from
now?
Five
years
from
now,
ten
years
from
now,
we.
E
D
Investment
in
the
future
is
something
that,
if
we
don't
make
it
today,
we
lose
not
just
this
year
but
off
into
the
future,
and
so
well
it
isn't
the
obvious
thing
to
do
and
other
places
will
say
gee.
How
can
you
do
that
in
this
circumstance,
I
think
that
fairly
analyzed?
This
is
the
kind
of
thing
that
would
be
irresponsible
to
not
do
it's
going
to
require,
as
you
say,
a
tremendous
amount
of
work,
but.
A
Before
adopting
the
managers
recommendation,
the
board
adopted
two
motions
put
forward
by
member
Mary
Hines
that
require
county
manager,
Ron
Carlee,
to
report
to
the
board
each
September
detailing
funds
spent
on
the
cultural
center,
how
business
goals
have
been
met
and
establishing
funding
targets
for
paga.
Those.
B
Are
motions
that
I
think
will
help
ensure
the
board
stays
abreast
of
what
is
going
on
with
the
cultural
center,
what
its
economic
impact
is
and
if
we
have
to
make
some
adjustments
either
to
programming
or
in
any
other
way,
we'll
be
able
to
do
it
in
a
timely
fashion?
All
those
in
favor,
please
signify
by
saying
aye
aye,
and
we
have
we're
on
our
way
to
a
cultural
center.
F
Really
to
be
a
multidisciplinary
space
will
have
the
dome
which
you
see
behind
us,
which
seats
220
and
the
former
broadcast
studio
will
become
a
black
box
that
will
seat
about
125,
and
then
we
have
a
very
unusual
space.
What
used
to
be
the
video
wall?
That's
a
two-story
space
and
very
long
and
skinny
would
make
an
excellent
ballroom
and
it's
also
a
space
that
can
be
used
as
a
gathering
space
for
our
heritage,
arts
groups
and
we'll
use
it
for
rentals
as
well
as
cabaret
and
such
upstairs.
F
The
whole
ellipse
program,
which
was
over
in
Boston,
will
be
moving
and
we'll
be
adding
and
expended
arts
education
space.
And
then
there
are
several
areas
within
the
dome
haven't
been
officially
identified
yet
where
we
think
we
can
also
have
many
galleries
that
will
be
of
use
to
the
community
and
then
we'll
have
a
couple
of
our
theater
companies
who
will
be
in
residence
here,
cinetic
theater,
which
is
one
of
the
most
imaginative
companies
around,
as
well
as
Washington
Shakespeare
Company,
which
has
been
in
the
county
since
nineteen.
G
F
Is
going
to
be
anywhere
from
eight
to
maybe
as
much
as
14
million
dollars
a
year?
So
it's
really
a
terrific
impact,
we're
looking
at
about
250,000
visitors
a
year.
We've
done.
Projections
on
every
single
program
that
we're
going
to
have
the
space
will
be
open,
seven
days
a
week,
12
hours
a
day
and
we're
looking
at
a
up
to
about
25
events
a
week.
So
it's
going
to
be
extremely
active
when.
F
A
If
you've
ever
driven
a
long
lee
highway
in
with
cherry
down
neighborhood
in
the
last
three
years,
you've
probably
noticed
an
unfinished
building
which
is
part
of
the
promptings
at
cherrydale
development.
Well,
the
Arlington
County
Board
have
reached
a
court
settlement
with
the
property
owner,
the
ED
Pete
company.
We
are
styling
Tenkaichi
board
chair
barbara
favola,
to
shed
some
light
on
the
situation.
The.
B
Brampton's
is
actually
in
a
key
lot
in
our
cherrydale
neighborhood
in
2002,
the
county
board
approved
a
very
comprehensive
site
plan
for
this.
What
we
approved
was
a
mixed
use
project
and
when
the
county
staff
went
in
and
monitored
for
structural
conformance
with
our
code,
the
building
didn't
meet
the
structural
code
and
it
took
us
a
little
while
to
determine
that
the
problem
was
so
severe
that
the
building
essentially
you'd
have
to
start
from
scratch
again.
B
So
once
we
determined
that
it
appears
to
be
a
very
big
price
tag
for
the
the
developer,
so
we
wanted
to
find
a
way
where
he
was
responsible
for
either
fixing
the
building
or
paying
the
cost
to
demolish
it.
And
this
new
contract
or
agreement
that
we've
come
up
with
is
a
way
to
do
that
in
that
contract.
The
county
has
bound
mr.
Pete
to
abide
by
the
site
plan
that
was
approved
with
all
that
citizen
input.
Mr.
B
Pete
also
is
on
a
timeline
for
bringing
the
property
into
conformance
with
the
site
plan
and
with
the
county's
building
code,
and
actually
the
timeline
is
pretty
aggressive.
He's
supposed
to
complete
exterior
improvements
by
March
of
2010
and
interior
improvements
by
September
of
2010,
the
county
will
move
forward
and
tear
down
that
building.
If
mr.
Pete
can't
meet
the
conditions
of
our
contract,
so
you
would
not
expect
something
like
this
to
come
up
place
out.
This
is
the
first
time
in
my
12
years
on
the
board
that
I've
had
this
situation.
B
Communities
across
the
country
have
situations
like
this
all
the
time.
Arlington
is
such
a
high
quality
community,
and
we
expect
so
much
from
our
developers.
We
usually
get
developers
who
have
very
deep
pockets
and
can
weather
the
storms
and
can
actually
correct
mistakes.
They
make
pretty
quickly.
This
was
an
anomaly
I.
A
B
H
Is
a
wonderful
program?
We
have
to
work
together
a
lot
to
to
determine
which
projects
are
going
to
be
our
top
priority,
because
individual
streets
or
blocks
will
submit
projects
and
the
neighborhood
as
a
hole
through
the
civic
association
prioritizes
those
projects
to
go
in
front
of
NC
for
funding.
And
so
we
work
on
things
that
are
most
important
to
a
particular
neighborhood.
The.
B
H
In
an
older
neighborhood
like
ours,
that's
missing
a
lot
of
curb
and
gutter.
That's
been
our
priority,
other
neighborhoods
their
priorities
or
parks
that
sorts
of
sort
of
thing,
and
one
of
the
great
things
is
for
all
of
our
projects.
We
get
to
work
with
the
neighborhood
conservation
landscape
designer,
so
we've
been
putting
in
a
lot
of
street
trees
and
that's
just
wonderful
for
the
neighborhood
a
lot.
B
Of
these
projects
have
met
multiple
County
goals.
You
know
such
as
improving
pedestrian
access
or
enhancing
our
tree
canopy
or
you
know
just
revile,
helping
to
stabilize
or
/
revitalize
the
neighborhood.
Now,
if
you're
in
Arlington
resident,
how
do
they
get
involved?
I
would
start
with
my
civic
association
and
I
would
work
on
my
neighborhood
conservation
plan.