Giving up on North Arligton... Is South Arlington going to improve?
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Anonymous
| Tax assessments have absolutely ZERO to do with market value. If you want to know market value then look at the sales of houses around you or hire an appraiser. ***I honestly don't know how much more "affordable" housing can go in S Arlington. Stop the madness. |
Anonymous
| Lots more room to build more cheap housing in the Barcroft zone. 4 mile run and the pike will be a huge complex soon, already planned. Food star soon enough.dont know whether government subsidized or just cheap because of location. |
Anonymous
Sales and appraisals of my neighborhood have gone up significantly. We refinanced this spring, and it was way over our assessment. I imagine it's pretty standard across the board. I've done no renovation on my 1955 cape code. |
Anonymous
| *cap cod |
Anonymous
Food star will be expensive because of location. There will of course be a small percentage of affordable housing due to the form based code. Most people support that. |
Anonymous
Both of the aforementioned buildings are slated to be built adhering to the form based code. The will have a small percentage affordable units. The rest of those buildings will be market rate- and it won't be cheap. The building going up by 4 mile didn't seem that large to me. The foodstar corner looks like a behemoth. This has all been discussed up thread. Feel free to peruse. |
Anonymous
| Hmm, in theory you could just informally decide to put everything along the west Pike. On the other hand, Cabrini-Green and north Old Town Alexandria can attest to the wisdom of concentrating all your poverty in one neck of the woods... |
Anonymous
Isn't old town breaking up all of their affordable housing? |
Anonymous
| Wisdom or not, the county wants more of it and north Arlington won't have it, so..... |
Anonymous
The county does listen to big voices. We need to step up and be heard. We are the county. |
Anonymous
North Old Town was never anything like Cabrini Green. I lived in Chicago when CG existed - did you? It was 15,000 people, and buildings much taller than anything on Columbia Pike (let alone the two story buildings in the Old Town projects) Why are AH opponents so dishonest? As for Old Town, it began to gentrify nicely while the projects were still there. The city redeveloped them because it needed the money from the land, not because they were holding back Old Town. |
Anonymous
Land is more expensive in North Arlington (and for that matter in the parts of Columbia Pike closer to the Pentagon) and the Arlington electorate seems to think that saving money is important. |
Anonymous
| Nope it's getting worse lots of people are going to be underwater as they flee to the north or other acceptable areas |
Anonymous
"Other acceptable areas"? Do tell. No need to beat around the bush. They'll practically have to open a UNHCR office in Pimmit Hills, won't they? |
Anonymous
The only dishonestly here is from the affordable housing lobby, putting their agenda above everyone's best interests. |