Powerful Letter to the Arlington County School Board about Diversity

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't HUD be contacted about N Arlington? That is, before the new administration.

About what?

About locating affordable housing there. Say, in the Jamestown or Discovery areas. I mean, it can't keep being 1955.

What do you propose? Using eminent domain to evict people from their SFHs? Seizing the golf course and Marymount Universiity and putting up high rises? Turning Chesnut Hills Playground into an apartment complex? Razing the Madison Center for condos?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why should there be diversity in housing? I mean no one is prohibiting you from purchasing anything. It's just that you can't afford it. What's wrong with it?
So if I can't afford a private jet, something I believe I deserve, then I should cry about it and ask the tax payers to "diversity" myself in?

We already devote millions to create and preserve affordable housing. We this has and is already happening. Keep up.

DP. But it shouldn't be limited to s Arlington or lee highway. It needs to go where it matters.

I don't think HUD's in the business of imposing quotas of affordable housing. You misunderstand the mission. You build affordable housing where there is space for it -- I don't think there's space for it where you're proposing. Your malicious view of affordable housing as a form of punishment to be inflicted on others is also really peculiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should there be diversity in housing? I mean no one is prohibiting you from purchasing anything. It's just that you can't afford it. What's wrong with it?
So if I can't afford a private jet, something I believe I deserve, then I should cry about it and ask the tax payers to "diversity" myself in?

We already devote millions to create and preserve affordable housing. We this has and is already happening. Keep up.

DP. But it shouldn't be limited to s Arlington or lee highway. It needs to go where it matters.

I don't think HUD's in the business of imposing quotas of affordable housing. You misunderstand the mission. You build affordable housing where there is space for it -- I don't think there's space for it where you're proposing. Your malicious view of affordable housing as a form of punishment to be inflicted on others is also really peculiar.

Oh jeez. Malicious? Really? You find it malicious to have affordable housing above Lee highway? I think people would be very happy to live there.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't see the issue with the use of the term "Neal". It seems similar to Larla or Larlo.
Banning the use seems extreme.

I don't have the time, energy, or desire to decipher the politics of Arlington or the etymology of the use of "Neal". I generally don't allow efforts to link anonymous posters in our forums to posters elsewhere. Such attempts may or may not be accurate and can be a form of "outing" that I am sure very few posters would want done to them. Moreover, it seems the name is being used as a form of denigration here. As such, like any other type of name-calling, it is generally a very poor substitute for substance. As such, reducing your argument to calling someone "Neal" does a disservice to your own post and to the substance of this forum. Please find more enlightened methods of making your points.

[Anonymous]

^ fair enough.

[Anonymous]

I live in 22207, and the benefit of putting affordable housing along Lee Highway would be that it would diversity pretty much every school boundary around it, since Lee Highway runs through areas feeding into Taylor, Glebe, McKinley, Discovery, Nottingham and probably Jamestown. The other schools located in North Arlington (Longbranch, Barrett, Ashlawn, ATS) are already reasonably diverse. Plus Lee Highway is served by a few buslines, which means that families with one car or no cars can get around almost as easily as if they were near Metrorail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in 22207, and the benefit of putting affordable housing along Lee Highway would be that it would diversity pretty much every school boundary around it, since Lee Highway runs through areas feeding into Taylor, Glebe, McKinley, Discovery, Nottingham and probably Jamestown. The other schools located in North Arlington (Longbranch, Barrett, Ashlawn, ATS) are already reasonably diverse. Plus Lee Highway is served by a few buslines, which means that families with one car or no cars can get around almost as easily as if they were near Metrorail.

They are starting the process for redeveloping around lee highway. Please get involved. They need to hear this from those neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in 22207, and the benefit of putting affordable housing along Lee Highway would be that it would diversity pretty much every school boundary around it, since Lee Highway runs through areas feeding into Taylor, Glebe, McKinley, Discovery, Nottingham and probably Jamestown. The other schools located in North Arlington (Longbranch, Barrett, Ashlawn, ATS) are already reasonably diverse. Plus Lee Highway is served by a few buslines, which means that families with one car or no cars can get around almost as easily as if they were near Metrorail.

They are starting the process for redeveloping around lee highway. Please get involved. They need to hear this from those neighborhoods.

I agree with PP--it has never made sense to me that there isn't more AH placed along Lee Highway. There is plenty of land that is zoned for apartments, there are groceries within walking distance for much of the stretch of the highway, and the bus service is excellent. And parts of Lee Highway are walkable to metro as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the point about Arlington having one of the three least diverse schools inside the beltway. There are several DC and PG County schools that are even less diverse, aren't there?

Why does this even matter? It does not diminish the author's point. What an odd thing to focus on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the point about Arlington having one of the three least diverse schools inside the beltway. There are several DC and PG County schools that are even less diverse, aren't there?

Why does this even matter? It does not diminish the author's point. What an odd thing to focus on.

Not odd at all. Taking issue with the premise.

[Anonymous]

There is affordable housing in the Lee Highway corridor-
Lee Highway – Glebe Road

Property Name Address Type Phone
Cameron Commons (16 units) 2028 N. Cameron Street Garden 703-243-6650
Leckey Gardens (32 units) 2031 N. Woodrow Street Garden 703-243-6650


Lee Highway – Palisades

Property Name Address Type Phone
Calvert Manor (19 units) 1925 N. Calvert Street Garden 703-243-6650
The Larkspur Apartments (76 units) 2508 20th Rd. N. #103 Low-rise 703-888-2298
William Watters (21 units) 2008 N. Adams Street Garden 703-528-7751

https://housing.arlingtonva.us/get-help/rental-services/affordable-units/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is affordable housing in the Lee Highway corridor-
Lee Highway – Glebe Road

Property Name Address Type Phone
Cameron Commons (16 units) 2028 N. Cameron Street Garden 703-243-6650
Leckey Gardens (32 units) 2031 N. Woodrow Street Garden 703-243-6650


Lee Highway – Palisades

Property Name Address Type Phone
Calvert Manor (19 units) 1925 N. Calvert Street Garden 703-243-6650
The Larkspur Apartments (76 units) 2508 20th Rd. N. #103 Low-rise 703-888-2298
William Watters (21 units) 2008 N. Adams Street Garden 703-528-7751

https://housing.arlingtonva.us/get-help/rental-services/affordable-units/

Wow!
164 units!!!
Amazing!
What a vibrant, diverse and inclusive area

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Wow!
164 units!!!
Amazing!
What a vibrant, diverse and inclusive area

And remember, not all of those units could hold a family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the point about Arlington having one of the three least diverse schools inside the beltway. There are several DC and PG County schools that are even less diverse, aren't there?

Why does this even matter? It does not diminish the author's point. What an odd thing to focus on.

Not odd at all. Taking issue with the premise.

The references to schools inside the Beltway and trying to shame APS by comparing it to FCPS (home of Langley High with only 1.5% of students getting meal subsidies) get in the way. It should just be about what APS has done and could do if it wanted given its compact size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the point about Arlington having one of the three least diverse schools inside the beltway. There are several DC and PG County schools that are even less diverse, aren't there?

Why does this even matter? It does not diminish the author's point. What an odd thing to focus on.

Not odd at all. Taking issue with the premise.

The references to schools inside the Beltway and trying to shame APS by comparing it to FCPS (home of Langley High with only 1.5% of students getting meal subsidies) get in the way. It should just be about what APS has done and could do if it wanted given its compact size.

Cool cool cool

So just keep harping on that small point, and deflecting from the very real bullshit that liberal arlington has been perpetuating for years.
Great job. Keep up the great work.