 At Jesse Phillips, Hazel was tasked with condemning and acquiring land for the future Capital Beltway.It was this experience that led to Hazel developing a great knowledge of zoning, land acquisition, and eminent domain, and would lead to his future success as an development advocate, and later, as a developer himself.In the late 1940s after the end of World War II, Fairfax County was still a sparsely populated rural tract, but one poised to boom as a suburb of Washington, D.C.