Fairfax Board Opposes Dulles Toll Road Ramp Option

Killing Option 3 saves Tysons woodlands, whose development has drawn opposition from residents over past several months.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors took steps Tuesday toward saving "one of the last standing green spaces" in a Tysons-area neighborhood. A proposed ramp connecting an extended Boone Boulevard to the Dulles Toll Road that would ostensibly pave over a resource protection area has had residents in an uproar for months. In September, neighborhood and civic associations combined to form the Tysons Forest Coalition, gathering almost 600 signatures in an effort to save “Tysons Corner’s last forest and stream.”  The county's department of transportation has been conducting a study of possibilities for ramp connections into Tysons, continuing the effort to turn the area into the county’s new urban downtown. In a motion Tuesday, Supervisor …

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