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Project Overview
The Quincy / Buck site has was purchased by the County and since 2018 has had various temporary uses while the County works to determine a permanent use for the site.
Fore more information, see the project’s Current Status and FAQ section.
County Project Page
North Quincy Facility – Arlington County Project Page
Who do I contact if I have a question or a concern?
This project was relatively dormant before becoming active again in late 2021. As a result, determining contact points in an ongoing process.
Your contact points:
Ballston-Virginia Square Civic Association
Please contact us at info@ballstoncivic.org.
Other contacts TBD.
Current Status and FAQs
7/22/2024 – Yearly Permit Review
- BVSCA will likely share remarks sometimes between 6:30 and 8pm
The County Board granted our request to move the annual permit review consideration to the recessed meeting on Tuesday, July 23 due to the conflict with BVSCA’s monthly membership meeting.
Here is the letter the executive committee provided to the board around experiences and issues with the site.
Here is a youtube channel with videos of current site usage: https://www.youtube.com/@QuincySite-cd4ii/videos
5/9/22 – BVSCA Press Release
UPDATED: 5/9/22: Follow-up Letter to County Board re: White Fleet and ART buses
Original post date: 5/6/22
Read BVSCA’s follow-up 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)
Background Documents
BVSCA’s letters refer to a series of exhibits and 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 the readers. Below we provide links to the originals and the retyped versions for each:
- 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
2/13/22 – Letter to County Board re: White Fleet and ART Buses
Read BVSCA’s letter to the County Board related to the White Fleet and ART Bus Plans at the Quincy Site here (PDF).
2/13/22 – DES Fit Test of White Fleet and ART Buses
The Department of Environmental Services conducted a ‘fit test’ of the 29 ART buses at the Quincy Site. BVSCA members observed the exercise and took these videos.
- Video 2: Noise monitoring by BVSCA members as buses move into position. Note the increase in decibel readings as the buses accelerate – much above the noise estimates commissioned by DES (PDF).
1/25/22 – Letter to DES
Read BVSCA’s letter to the Department of Environmental Services on dumpsters on the site, submitted January 14, 2022.
BVSCA-Jan-14-2022-Buck-Site-Letter (PDF)
12/12/21
As of December 2021, BVSCA has learned of a proposal by DES going before the County Board to use the site for bus operations and storage, which contradicts past findings in both the GLUP and JFAC committees for this site.
Read BVSCA’s letter to the County Board on this issue (PDF), submitted December 9, 2021 with a correction on December 11, 2021.