"...such a facility would provide a major, new
recreational option for county residents." - Arlington Neighborhood
Conservation Advisory Committee, 1996
"Arlington should be allowed to sensibly develop
a small tract (on the Potomac River bank) that will give its citizens
a better chance to enjoy this under utilized resource."
- Northern Virginia Sun, 1996
"For too many years Arlington citizens have
been denied the full use of the Potomac waterfront." - 1991
Arlington Economic Development Commision
"By encouraging more public use of the rivers...[we]
will not only accomodate a popular recreational activity, but...part
of an educational process...for the preservation and protection of these
river resources for generations to come." -1989 National
Park Service Study
"Improved access to the Potomac River could
provide more recreational opportunities for citizens and greatly enhance
the identity of Arlington." - 1986 Commision on Arlington's
Future
"Our goal must be to return it closer to its
traditional role as a focus of commercial, social and recreati onal
life and as the great waterway that once inspired the choice of this
site as the National Capital." - The Potomac: A Report on
Its Imperiled Future and a Guide for its Orderly Development, 1967
