APS overcrowding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You’re reading an awful lot into my post. I support adding more capacity at the high school level, but that’s separate from realigning grade levels between schools. Can you imagine how much people would lose their minds if every five years they not only redrew boundaries but also reevaluated whether current fifth graders would stay in ES or move to MS the following year? It would be chaos.

PP and I do agree on the bolded. It's another area where Arlington parents have had way too much say so in APS decision-making. The loudest voices get their way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

So stop building low income housing but continue with market-rate and luxury housing. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

So stop building low income housing but continue with market-rate and luxury housing. Nice.

A 300 unit building is going to have approximately 160 kids if it’s a CAF building and 19 if it’s market rate. That’s the math based on existing buildings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Or build more schools which they refuse to do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

So stop building low income housing but continue with market-rate and luxury housing. Nice.

A 300 unit building is going to have approximately 160 kids if it’s a CAF building and 19 if it’s market rate. That’s the math based on existing buildings.

Aren’t CAF building incentivize families? Can you qualify for CAF more easily if you have dependents??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

So stop building low income housing but continue with market-rate and luxury housing. Nice.

A 300 unit building is going to have approximately 160 kids if it’s a CAF building and 19 if it’s market rate. That’s the math based on existing buildings.

Aren’t CAF building incentivize families? Can you qualify for CAF more easily if you have dependents??

CAF projects in this area target families with kids. In other states the affordable housing projects may target low income single people, veterans, seniors, the recently housed, and lower to middle income workforce housing. Those projects are mostly affordable studio or one bedroom apartments, even SROs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

What does low income housing have to do with it?

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf
rates on page 42

Thank you for answering with facts, it was obvious the PP was trying to insert class warfare into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Yes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Yes?

Because additional rich people will generate fewer kids. Or build a 4th high school and plan for addition elem and middle school capacity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Ideally we don’t do the stupid missing middle zoning change so we don’t get many more rich people either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Ideally we don’t do the stupid missing middle zoning change so we don’t get many more rich people either.

Why do you think missing middle will bring more rich people? I’m an APS teacher who wants to stay in Arlington and more 6-700,000 townhomes or duplexes would help me do that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Ideally we don’t do the stupid missing middle zoning change so we don’t get many more rich people either.

Why do you think missing middle will bring more rich people? I’m an APS teacher who wants to stay in Arlington and more 6-700,000 townhomes or duplexes would help me do that

You won’t stay in townhouse with a family if you have money enough to move to FFX.

And they are $1M townhouses. They talk about it’s not middle income housing it’s middle sizing. It’s inane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton.

So, eliminate additional poor people but additional rich people are fine?

Ideally we don’t do the stupid missing middle zoning change so we don’t get many more rich people either.

Why do you think missing middle will bring more rich people? I’m an APS teacher who wants to stay in Arlington and more 6-700,000 townhomes or duplexes would help me do that

You won’t stay in townhouse with a family if you have money enough to move to FFX.

And they are $1M townhouses. They talk about it’s not middle income housing it’s middle sizing. It’s inane.

I read the entire plan and saw the proposed income and types of units they were referencing, some will be million dollar townhomes, others will be less and duplexes/triplexes/quads etc. I’ve already been renting a large condo in Arlington for 6 years, my kid is 10. I’m committed to APS and want my kid in the same system. There are others like me who value a short commute and like to live where they work.