Trailer Parks Coming to Your Neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

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What I want to see are ways to have a tiny home be legal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

Also tiny homes often have better construction than a trailer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

Lots are not 800k in Virginia almost everwhere in Virginia outside of Arlington, Alexandria and certain areas of Fairfax county. You can buy buildable lots in PWC for 100-200k. Condos are a trap that destroy wealth for homeowners. There are plenty of affordable areas in Northern Virginia and Virginia as a whole. Eliminating zoning to promote “affordability” because a handful of the most desirable zip codes on Northern Virginia are expensive does not make sense. They will never be affordable to the average person and changing the zoning rules to encourage the everyone to move to a small number of desirable locations will destroy what makes the locations desirable to begin with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

Or people sleeping in tents . . .

Unhoused people have a right to put up tents on sidewalks. Where is your humanity?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

Or people sleeping in tents . . .

Unhoused people have a right to put up tents on sidewalks. Where is your humanity?

And where do they go to the bathroom and throw away their garbage? On your lawn?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

Citation?

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

Citation?

This is very easy to verify yourself. Here is the share of county land that is zoned with higher density residential zoning categories that could be suitable for smaller single family homes.
R-3: 12.54% = (31,350 acres, up to 94,050 units)
R-4: 3.36% = (8,400 acres, up to 33,600 units)
R-5: 2.78% = (6,950 acres, up to 34,750 units)
R-8: 2.91% = (7,725 acres, up to 52,200 units)
21.6% of the entire county is zoned for higher density residential development that is suitable for smaller single family houses. These zoning categories effectively allow for the development of up to 215,000 housing unite, which is equal to around half of the existing housing supply in the county. Yes, I will concede that most of this land is already developed but there are still tens of thousands of unbuilt units allowed under the existing zoning in this portion of the county. My proposal to increase affordability for single family housing, is to rezone all land in the county that is currently zoned R-3 to R-4. This will allow minimally impactful redevelopment by allowing the subdivision of larger R-4 lots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

Citation?

This is very easy to verify yourself. Here is the share of county land that is zoned with higher density residential zoning categories that could be suitable for smaller single family homes.
R-3: 12.54% = (31,350 acres, up to 94,050 units)
R-4: 3.36% = (8,400 acres, up to 33,600 units)
R-5: 2.78% = (6,950 acres, up to 34,750 units)
R-8: 2.91% = (7,725 acres, up to 52,200 units)
21.6% of the entire county is zoned for higher density residential development that is suitable for smaller single family houses. These zoning categories effectively allow for the development of up to 215,000 housing unite, which is equal to around half of the existing housing supply in the county. Yes, I will concede that most of this land is already developed but there are still tens of thousands of unbuilt units allowed under the existing zoning in this portion of the county. My proposal to increase affordability for single family housing, is to rezone all land in the county that is currently zoned R-3 to R-4. This will allow minimally impactful redevelopment by allowing the subdivision of larger R-4 lots.

Everything with residential zoning that is currently zoned less than R-4 within a mile radius of the metro stations or VRE stations canalso be upzoned to R-4.

[Anonymous]

Trailer parks are bad if you own the trailer, because you have to dump it when you leave the land you rent. Rental trailer parks are fine.

[Anonymous]

Manufactured housing is generally flimsy and at risk from severe weather events. It's a big risk or save money temporarily.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the land in Fairfax County is too expensive for trailer parks. Who cares if they add trailer parks in Prince William or places like that

Those of us in Prince William ...

Gasp! How did you get onto DCUM! This isn’t for people like you!