The Earth-Toned In List: What's Hot and What's Not in 2016

For fans of green space, or tasteful redevelopment proposals, or functional mass transit systems, or beloved founding fathers, 2015 maybe wasn't exactly the best year in our plastic fantastic planned community. Like other dying mediums, this filthy "web log" is offering its "In/Out List" for 2016. Take heed, or prepare to "graduate" to Ashburn, where particleboard is always "in," the end.

OUT	IN
Developing Lake Anne surroundings	Drowning Lake Anne sorrows
Founding father	Founding Farmers
DRB drones	Barge boarding parties
Bollards	Pigs
Frivolous court cases	Frivolous supreme court cases
Lake scum	Wavyleaf Basket Grass
Historical markers	Hysterical marketers
Tall Oaks tenants	Tall Oaks retries
Reston International Center	International Tower
Bike thefts	Bikeshare
Surface parking	Midrise awesomeness
Hill Valley	Reston: The Movie
RTC	RTC West
Ford Foci	FAR
$100,000 websites	$10 web logs
Silver Line	Working stairs
Laptops and lattes	Creative class types
Tetra opposition	RELAC love
Closed midscale chain eatery	Open midscale chain eatery

We can always hope.