Overriding local zoning to allow multi-family units in suburban neighborhoods in VA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NOVA resident here. Totally support the move.

NOVA resident. I agree too. No one needs to have a giant McMansion with an acre of land in prime real estate like McLean. I’m glad they’re forcing these rich assholes to give up their land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NOVA resident here. Totally support the move.

NOVA resident. I agree too. No one needs to have a giant McMansion with an acre of land in prime real estate like McLean. I’m glad they’re forcing these rich assholes to give up their land.

You are clearly a troll. Probably a kid.

[Anonymous]

This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Different poster here. Of course it is a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood. Everything that you enjoy, which can only be enjoyed by a limited number of other people, is a privilege. You buying a ticket to see a movie in a theater with limited number of seats - that right there is a privilege.

All of mankind's advancements is in the seeking of privileges. Privilege is embedded in life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness:

People who live in a modern day representative democracy experience the privilege of superior guarantees of right to life.

People who live in Virginia enjoy the privilege of high degrees of personal liberty than people in Maryland in terms of gun ownership.

People who work enjoy the privilege of having more disposable income than those who do not work or cannot work.

Privilege is all around us, it is the ether of human civilization. To say that privilege is a negative aspect of human civilization is like saying that athletic ability is a negative aspect of exercising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Yes, of course it's a privilege to own a singlex in a nice neighborhood (however you define nice). Your own words show that you believe it to be so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Different poster here. Of course it is a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood. Everything that you enjoy, which can only be enjoyed by a limited number of other people, is a privilege. You buying a ticket to see a movie in a theater with limited number of seats - that right there is a privilege.

All of mankind's advancements is in the seeking of privileges. Privilege is embedded in life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness:

People who live in a modern day representative democracy experience the privilege of superior guarantees of right to life.

People who live in Virginia enjoy the privilege of high degrees of personal liberty than people in Maryland in terms of gun ownership.

People who work enjoy the privilege of having more disposable income than those who do not work or cannot work.

Privilege is all around us, it is the ether of human civilization. To say that privilege is a negative aspect of human civilization is like saying that athletic ability is a negative aspect of exercising.

What if someone takes away your privilege and gives it to someone else? Is that embedded in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Yes, of course it's a privilege to own a singlex in a nice neighborhood (however you define nice). Your own words show that you believe it to be so.

I don’t see it as a privilege. I see it as something that I earned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Yes, of course it's a privilege to own a singlex in a nice neighborhood (however you define nice). Your own words show that you believe it to be so.

I don’t see it as a privilege. I see it as something that I earned.

Yep, same here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Yes, of course it's a privilege to own a singlex in a nice neighborhood (however you define nice). Your own words show that you believe it to be so.

I don’t see it as a privilege. I see it as something that I earned.

It's both, eh?

You worked for it (I assume), AND it's a privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Different poster here. Of course it is a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood. Everything that you enjoy, which can only be enjoyed by a limited number of other people, is a privilege. You buying a ticket to see a movie in a theater with limited number of seats - that right there is a privilege.

All of mankind's advancements is in the seeking of privileges. Privilege is embedded in life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness:

People who live in a modern day representative democracy experience the privilege of superior guarantees of right to life.

People who live in Virginia enjoy the privilege of high degrees of personal liberty than people in Maryland in terms of gun ownership.

People who work enjoy the privilege of having more disposable income than those who do not work or cannot work.

Privilege is all around us, it is the ether of human civilization. To say that privilege is a negative aspect of human civilization is like saying that athletic ability is a negative aspect of exercising.

What if someone takes away your privilege and gives it to someone else? Is that embedded in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

No.

For example, it used to be that basically only white men had the privilege of holding elective office. White men no longer have this privilege. Did this reduce white men's rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Different poster here. Of course it is a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood. Everything that you enjoy, which can only be enjoyed by a limited number of other people, is a privilege. You buying a ticket to see a movie in a theater with limited number of seats - that right there is a privilege.

All of mankind's advancements is in the seeking of privileges. Privilege is embedded in life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness:

People who live in a modern day representative democracy experience the privilege of superior guarantees of right to life.

People who live in Virginia enjoy the privilege of high degrees of personal liberty than people in Maryland in terms of gun ownership.

DP. Well, nothing lasts forever. Demographics change. Political preferences change. Notions of private property change, along with notions of justice. For now, govt would have to compensate you if it takes your property. But that is not what this state law proposal is about. It’s usefully, in my view, about resetting our views of resource hoarding, fairness, and land use. There is SO much racism embedded in so much of white suburban life.

People who work enjoy the privilege of having more disposable income than those who do not work or cannot work.

Privilege is all around us, it is the ether of human civilization. To say that privilege is a negative aspect of human civilization is like saying that athletic ability is a negative aspect of exercising.

What if someone takes away your privilege and gives it to someone else? Is that embedded in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bill was a great first step toward trying to dismantle systemic racism. Housing is where the rubber meets the road for lots of privileged people. The assembly needs to become more progressive. Just give it some time. Playing the long game here.

It’s now a privilege to own a SFH in a nice neighborhood? Doesn’t have anything to do with earning it?

Yes, of course it's a privilege to own a singlex in a nice neighborhood (however you define nice). Your own words show that you believe it to be so.

I don’t see it as a privilege. I see it as something that I earned.

Yep, same here!

You didn’t build that, Obama would say (looking out from his $10 million plus house).

[Anonymous]

This thread is way too long, but do you all realize that the upzoning effort in Arlington will not be all of Arlington, just areas where the county picks? So, some neighborhoods will get up zoned, some won’t? And where do you all think that upzoning will happen. Not in north Arlington ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is way too long, but do you all realize that the upzoning effort in Arlington will not be all of Arlington, just areas where the county picks? So, some neighborhoods will get up zoned, some won’t? And where do you all think that upzoning will happen. Not in north Arlington ....

This is not just about Arlington. This thread started with a bill from a Herndon/Loudoun delegate in Virginia legislature. Fortunately, his bill failed. The bill would have outlawed single family zoning. I assume that would have been anywhere.