Who said there isn't a North-South divide?

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Anonymous wrote:Solution: More apartments in North Arlington. More single family housing in South Arlington.

Cool, go find me a site in the Discovery zone where you could put an apartment building.

Restrictive zoning is a primary way to hoard opportunity. Just rezone.

Rezone what? Where is there a sufficiently large vacant parcel(s) in the Discovery zone that would be an attractive site to a developer for an apartment building?

Take a look at the various development in South Arlington - you don't need a "sufficiently large vacant parcel" to build large housing projects.

So find a site, no one is stopping you from identifying one.

Actually, the residents in north arlington stop it all the time. When projects are built in the north, they are typically much fewer units. So when it isn't stopped, it's limited.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Solution: More apartments in North Arlington. More single family housing in South Arlington.

Cool, go find me a site in the Discovery zone where you could put an apartment building.

Restrictive zoning is a primary way to hoard opportunity. Just rezone.

Rezone what? Where is there a sufficiently large vacant parcel(s) in the Discovery zone that would be an attractive site to a developer for an apartment building?

Take a look at the various development in South Arlington - you don't need a "sufficiently large vacant parcel" to build large housing projects.

So find a site, no one is stopping you from identifying one.

Actually, the residents in north arlington stop it all the time. When projects are built in the north, they are typically much fewer units. So when it isn't stopped, it's limited.

Where has this happened in the Discovery zone? Or anywhere else in NW in recent history (defined as the period when parents of current APS students might reasonably have been homeowners there)? Please identify specific projects where residents blocked increased density in a development.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, you all act as if people in affordable housing don’t have cars. That is false. They have jus as many cars as the rest of us. I live in the mist of affordable housing down here on the pike and there are so many cars that the parking lots are totally inadequate and cars spill into the Sfh streets so that people who live there have zero street parking. Blocks and blocks of cars from CAFs. I know people who live in cafs and marks, they have lots of cars, ever drive down George mason south of 50?

The highest concentrations of poverty along the Pike are west of there. You know, by the schools whose FARMS rates are more than twice Henry’s.

And they have lots of cars here on the west end, too.

Our streets in Douglas Park have zoned parking next to Barcroft apts, because it’s such a shit show for parking at that complex. Most units have more than 1 car.

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So transportation isn’t an issue for anyone. In that case we should do away with school busing entirely, everyone can drive their kids to school and it’ll save APS millions.

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Anonymous wrote:So transportation isn’t an issue for anyone. In that case we should do away with school busing entirely, everyone can drive their kids to school and it’ll save APS millions.

Been saying that for years.

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Anonymous wrote:So transportation isn’t an issue for anyone. In that case we should do away with school busing entirely, everyone can drive their kids to school and it’ll save APS millions.

Totally. Let's bag "proximity" while we're at it.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are so boring and predictable. You talk a good game about diversity when you think it’s a stepping stone to increasing your own real estate values, typically at someone else’s expense, and that’s about it.

I learned how to play that game from you. Don’t hate the player.

LOL. That’s been the north Arlington game plan for years. We LOVE diversity and affordable housing so long as it’s in south Arlington.

Listen to this dude talking about diversity enhancing property values. i live in a neighborhood this person wouldn't even drive they and my property value has gone way up anyway. Christ. I just want the kid to go to a decent school with a variety of people. That's why I moved to south Arlington from north. There's no ulterior motive. Why is it so hard to accept that my priorities are different?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. People make all sorts of logistical sacrifices to send their kids to TJ. So yes, of course, many s Arlington parents would happily do that for Discovery. Others wouldn’t. But the option should be there. Otherwise, there is, in effect a wall between the n and s. And the north, or at least some of it, is just fine with that.

People make those sacrifices because TJ has a very specialized program. Discovery is just a neighborhood school.

It’s not a literal comparison along those lines, moron.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are so boring and predictable. You talk a good game about diversity when you think it’s a stepping stone to increasing your own real estate values, typically at someone else’s expense, and that’s about it.

I learned how to play that game from you. Don’t hate the player.

LOL. That’s been the north Arlington game plan for years. We LOVE diversity and affordable housing so long as it’s in south Arlington.

Right—so long as it’s more theoretical than real it’s a virtue. I call it live right, vote left.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are so boring and predictable. You talk a good game about diversity when you think it’s a stepping stone to increasing your own real estate values, typically at someone else’s expense, and that’s about it.

I learned how to play that game from you. Don’t hate the player.

LOL. That’s been the north Arlington game plan for years. We LOVE diversity and affordable housing so long as it’s in south Arlington.

Listen to this dude talking about diversity enhancing property values. i live in a neighborhood this person wouldn't even drive they and my property value has gone way up anyway. Christ. I just want the kid to go to a decent school with a variety of people. That's why I moved to south Arlington from north. There's no ulterior motive. Why is it so hard to accept that my priorities are different?

So you’re good with your school, no problems here. I guess this thread is done now.

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't just the SOL scores and teaching to the lowest common denominator that makes a "poorer" school less desirable.

- It is the lack of PTA funds for all the perks enjoyed by wealthier schools (classroom tools, after school fun, landscaping). This is a huge issue and it directly affects the teachers and students.
-It is the lack of parent involvement, room parents, parents sponsoring clubs. Again, fewer enrichment opportunities with a direct impact on students and teachers.

This is a huge piece of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. People make all sorts of logistical sacrifices to send their kids to TJ. So yes, of course, many s Arlington parents would happily do that for Discovery. Others wouldn’t. But the option should be there. Otherwise, there is, in effect a wall between the n and s. And the north, or at least some of it, is just fine with that.

People make those sacrifices because TJ has a very specialized program. Discovery is just a neighborhood school.

It’s not a literal comparison along those lines, moron.

“People make all sorts of logistical sacrifices to send their kids to TJ. So yes, of course, many s Arlington parents would happily do that for Discovery.”

It doesn’t take a moron to see that as a “literal” comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:So transportation isn’t an issue for anyone. In that case we should do away with school busing entirely, everyone can drive their kids to school and it’ll save APS millions.

How many "walking" schools are there in APS? I know that Randolph is one

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Randolph can be 100% filled with walkers. It’s boundary may even shrink in the upcoming changes. Hopefully the Board will do the right thing and extend Ashlawn south of 50, keep Long Branch partly south of 50, keep south of CP at Fleet, move some of Arlington Ridge to Drew, make key a neighborhood school but extend boundaries further up into Lyon Park. One Arlington. Start focusing on central Arlington and let other overcrowding continue one more year till Reed opens. Just do it all at once. Be bold APS.

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Anonymous wrote:Randolph can be 100% filled with walkers. It’s boundary may even shrink in the upcoming changes. Hopefully the Board will do the right thing and extend Ashlawn south of 50, keep Long Branch partly south of 50, keep south of CP at Fleet, move some of Arlington Ridge to Drew, make key a neighborhood school but extend boundaries further up into Lyon Park. One Arlington. Start focusing on central Arlington and let other overcrowding continue one more year till Reed opens. Just do it all at once. Be bold APS.

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