Forcing newly retired seniors out is what happened in Falls Church many years ago. It was sad. But people these days don’t care about anyone 50+. They just want them to die. |
Each unit in a multiplex will be $1M after the first owner sells if not sooner. |
This makes me want to vomit. This happened in my town and it ruined the downtown. It is a burned out ghost town ghetto now. |
But they are not Metro accessible. Migrants in NYC are rejecting the new housing in NYC for multiple reasons but primarily because it is not easily accessible to the subway and jobs. Great Falls and Potomac are bedroom communities. |
Lets play a game. Which scenario is a bigger waste of resources? A. A SFH of 2500 sqf with 5 people B. A one bedroom apartment of 1400 sqf with one person |
Where are there 1400 sf one-bedroom apartments?! |
Hey, you voted for it. Reap the rewards. |
Not to mention that “mcmansions” being built after tearing down a 700k house are almost certain to be WAY more than 2500sf. |
City is rehabilitating itself with these zoning changes. They are also finally doing away with Confederate street names. Public hearing is this Thursday.
Details: https://x.com/alexandriavagov/status/1729286252258546023 |
So-called smart growthers are incredibly ageist. They think that if you need to drive to shop you should just sell your home (for denser development, naturally) and move to Leisure World. |
I didn’t post that bike lanes were bad. What I posted was that the city council went ahead and voted for Durham’s pet project, to the tune of $1,000,000+ for about 0.9 miles of bike lanes on Seminary and a road diet, with Justin Wilson being the tie breaker, when the overwhelming majority of residents who lived in Seminary Hill and other parts of Alexandria had voiced their objection. So get the facts straight. The city council decides what they want to do, then fabricate this public process to do it. About everything. There are right and wrong ways to do things. The city council and Wilson are shifty, insincere and frankly lie. Remember that when he runs for Congress. |
But which one advances DEI? |
Do you not count 2 duplexes as two housing units? I sure do. And the addition of an ADU now means .... a lot that once had 3 or 4 people and 1 or 2 cars, now will have ~9 people and 8 cars. In what world does the neighbor want that? |
It’s a transit rich neighborhood with a rich history of duplexes on lots just like that. Several people in this thread are saying that we are both neighbors and comfortable with it - so…this world I guess? |
4. More smaller landlords who are unlikely to properly maintain the properties. Let’s be honest, that’s the real problem. When you are taking about quadplexes you are taking about renters and landlords. Not the type of landlords that maintain large complexes, but the type who are more likely to maintain older residential properties with little exterior maintenance or care for the neighbors to the property. That’s this issue. And it’s rarely an issue who rents the property but who maintains its. |