Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People need to pay attention to the 2026 legislative session in VA. This type of eyesore will become common in single family neighborhoods if the the YIMBYs convince the legislators to preempt local control over zoning. this is exactly what will be coming to Alexandria and Arlington due to the zoning changes. Maybe everywhere in Virginia if the VA legislature preempts local control zoning. Call your state senate reps and state delegates this year to voice your opposition to bills that allow this monstrosity by-right. Oppose anything that eliminates single family zoning, parking minimums, and definitely call to voice opposition to bills that allow churches to ignore local zoning rules. This is already legal everywhere in California and they want to force this on your quaint suburban community as well.

Agree 100%

[Anonymous]

I saw this on IG today -- WTH wouldn't they just tear down the original house and build a McMansion????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy the houses on both sides of this monstrosity and build really high apartment buildings to completely hem in this neighbor's house.

There's a house on Tennyson that tore down a beautiful house they claimed had internal damage, which I seriously doubt because the house was immaculate with a deco touch that likely people didn't like. They built a massive house, and now the house next to them was torn down and is even bigger than theirs, so their backyard has a bit of wall. The karma tickles me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never ever buy on that street. It needs torn down. How hard is it to have zoning laws that say that the addition needs to blend in with the house?

Then again, I can’t stand 1940s-60s homes and love when they’re remodeled into nice homes and get rid of split level plans. I would hate for a remodel to have to keep the split level or the rancher because that’s what the original was.

Did you mean to say "it needs to be torn down"? Verbs matter.

[Anonymous]

This is what missing middle will bring to Arlington. And if you oppose it, you’re called a NIMBY.

[Anonymous]

Looks like an AirBnB, or a place to rent out by the room.

[Anonymous]

This house gives serious Rapunzel vibes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never ever buy on that street. It needs torn down. How hard is it to have zoning laws that say that the addition needs to blend in with the house?

Then again, I can’t stand 1940s-60s homes and love when they’re remodeled into nice homes and get rid of split level plans. I would hate for a remodel to have to keep the split level or the rancher because that’s what the original was.

+1. It will affect the property values on the whole block.

[Anonymous]

Looks like a Lego addition. Something is not right with that design.

[Anonymous]

It looks like something out of the third world.

[Anonymous]

If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

re: teardown vs. addition. There are a lot of costs in a teardown that you can avoid with an addition, even a large one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

Genuine question as someone who doesn't spend much time in the DC burbs: Is the neighborhood "low income"? NOT by DCUM standards but by any normal DC/NOVA/Marylander's standards.

I ask because no one interviewed in the news piece about it looked or sounded "low income" by any stretch. I get that it is not McLean or Vienna but it did not appear to be the type of neighborhood where one expects their immigrant neighbor to build what another poster here accurately described as a "three story rabbit hutch."

Additionally the houses on the street seem to be selling for $700-800K. That's not much by this area's standards, but it is often "starter home" territory for most 30-somethings. Are you suggesting that millennial home buyers deserve to live in a reboot of a third world country simply because they can't afford $1.5M houses like their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like an AirBnB, or a place to rent out by the room.

No, it's they described it as a "multi-family dwelling" to the news station, aka a bunch of foreigners moving their in-laws over to America and making their neighbors suffer for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

Genuine question as someone who doesn't spend much time in the DC burbs: Is the neighborhood "low income"? NOT by DCUM standards but by any normal DC/NOVA/Marylander's standards.

I ask because no one interviewed in the news piece about it looked or sounded "low income" by any stretch. I get that it is not McLean or Vienna but it did not appear to be the type of neighborhood where one expects their immigrant neighbor to build what another poster here accurately described as a "three story rabbit hutch."

Additionally the houses on the street seem to be selling for $700-800K. That's not much by this area's standards, but it is often "starter home" territory for most 30-somethings. Are you suggesting that millennial home buyers deserve to live in a reboot of a third world country simply because they can't afford $1.5M houses like their parents?

No it is not a low income neighborhood by normal standards. If you can see the houses are selling for $700k+, why even ask this?