Ballston Beaver Pond Renovation - and its impact on cycling

When I first lived in Arlington, we lived next to the Beaver Pond.  An accidental creation, the Ballston Beaver Pond was originally designed simply to capture run off water - until some beavers thought better of it - and turned it into a habitat.  The Beaver Pond is on a weird triangle of land between I-66, N Fairfax, and Glebe, bumping up against Washington.  It has recreational trails on all sides.  One trail runs up the west side of the Beaver Pond, crosses I-66, and connects to the Custis Trail.

Arlington is renovating the Beaver Pond.  This will impact the recreational trails. The Beaver Pond website lists three different concepts of what might become of the recreational trails - but is devoid of any information on what exactly the county has decided to do. While Arlco has figured out how to create a blog about the Beaver Pond, they are using the blog to tell use that you have to come to a physical meeting to actually learn what is going on (*sigh*).

The meeting to figure out what is going on is next Tuesday, November 13: