Encouraged by David Mog, President of AFCA 1984-1985.
Chair of Neighborhood Conservation Committee 1982-1985.
Sustained by Tim O'Leary, President of AFCA 1986-1987.
Assisted by Bob Kilby, Contractor
Bill Monroe, Plumber
Bernie Guiliano, Cover Artist
Bill Keyser
Joe Lederle
Toni Lydecker
Elroy Nieweg
Tony Truman
John Weber
Val Zadnik
contributors of special articles
and others who gave constructive advice and helpful information for this manual.
Also Robert Loveless, former Forester, artist in
1969 of drawing on inside cover.
The purpose of the Housing Committee under the Neighborhood Conservation Plan is to stimulate interest in each property in Arlington Forest in order to encourage property maintenance and to sustain value and appearance.
The Committee sponsored, to that end, the House Tour in the Fall of 1984 and organized the Neighborhood Banquet in the Spring of 1985. The Banquet had been an annual event but had not been held for several years. It is now, once again, an on-going event, held the last Friday evening May and supported by many Foresters. The third project of the Committee is the manual.
The manual is not meant to be a definitive guide to all home repair problems. The information has been collected from homeowners familiar with the house structures and from professionals who have worked on its repairs. The Committee hopes that this manual will acquaint each homeowner with his and her home, so that the right questions may be asked when problems occur. We hope that the manual will help each home occupant maintain his/her property to the pride of each resident, on each street, in each section to the total advantage of the Forest.
ARLINGTON FOREST is an established community of single family homes in Arlington County, Virginia. Arlington has the enviable quality of being urban in cosmopolitan exposure and easy availability of services as well as suburban in comfortable homes close to parks and recreation facilities. It is a stable community, yet growing as part of the national capital area. Within the metro area, Arlington has the lowest unemployment rate, tax rate, and office vacancy rate. It is not only an attractive county, it is also an excellent financial investment for land and home owners.
ARLINGTON FOREST is an established community of 850 single-family homes in this well located county. At the time of its development in the late 1930's, ARLINGTON FOREST represented design concepts in the forefront of community planning. Using curving streets instead of rigid rectilinear plans and locating power lines between back years rather than on the street were two notable improvements. Moreover, the families that have been attracted to ARLINGTON FOREST represent the highest standards of community awareness and pride. They have been a continuous source of Arlington's civic, business, and religious communities' leaders.
The ARLINGTON FOREST CITIZENS ASSOCIATION was begun in 1940, one year after ground was first broken for homes on Arlington Boulevard, then called Lee Boulevard, and South Park Drive. Our Association has spearheaded activities to develop a human community, as well as a brick-and-mortar community. It has facilitated protection for the FOREST from potential high-rise commercial encroachment as well as intrusive traffic. AFCA continues unabated today, thanks to the generosity of many Foresters who are committed to its activities.
Why live in ARLINGTON FOREST? Here are some advantages:
Is it any wonder that ARLINGTON FOREST is an area in which its residents take great pride?
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