"Zoning for Housing" in Alexandria -- no more SFHs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The more people living closer to their jobs, the better. Regardless of whether they rent or own.

Who are the people? Teachers and police officers want to own close to where they work so having more rentals doesn’t mean anything to them.

My DH is an Alexandria police officer and we live in Fairfax County -- he wants to be as far away as possible from Alexandria. Remember, he sees the crimes that are not reported and knows how really bad Alexandria is.

I belive that. The stories he could tell...

I wish the ACPD wasn't so quiet about what's happening.

Sure. Sure. Giant conspiracy. You people are nuts.

[Anonymous]

The final Council meetings slash Zoning for Housing Festivuses take place on Nov. 14th and 18th ahead of a vote on the 28th.

I feel the reforms do not go far enough, but are a decent start. Meanwhile, those opposed are treating it like armageddon. Should be an interesting couple of meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this means the schools will just get worse and the middle class will move elsewhere. The wealthy can send their kids to private or to the two track high school where wealthy kids get the attention and into top colleges and many others simply enter the prison pipeline.

It seems people rarely recognize in their attacks WHY these neighborhoods are desirable, and WHY the schools are good. Which is generally a function of the economic status of the people who live there. Fine, fill it in, but the desirability of the area will change. Don't expect anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this means the schools will just get worse and the middle class will move elsewhere. The wealthy can send their kids to private or to the two track high school where wealthy kids get the attention and into top colleges and many others simply enter the prison pipeline.

It seems people rarely recognize in their attacks WHY these neighborhoods are desirable, and WHY the schools are good. Which is generally a function of the economic status of the people who live there. Fine, fill it in, but the desirability of the area will change. Don't expect anything else.

I know, right? No one goes there anymore; it's too crowded!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this means the schools will just get worse and the middle class will move elsewhere. The wealthy can send their kids to private or to the two track high school where wealthy kids get the attention and into top colleges and many others simply enter the prison pipeline.

It seems people rarely recognize in their attacks WHY these neighborhoods are desirable, and WHY the schools are good. Which is generally a function of the economic status of the people who live there. Fine, fill it in, but the desirability of the area will change. Don't expect anything else.

I know, right? No one goes there anymore; it's too crowded!

Don't you get sick of using the same, tired, tropes?

[Anonymous]

I wonder how much of it was driven by the Amazon HQ2 coming to "National Landing." I wonder if Amazon was promised by Arlington (which just passed Missing Middle) and Alexandria that they would find more housing for Amazon employees because younger workers like being closer to work. It's surely not a coincidence that the whole YIMBY movement took off in the tech-heavy SF Bay Area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much of it was driven by the Amazon HQ2 coming to "National Landing." I wonder if Amazon was promised by Arlington (which just passed Missing Middle) and Alexandria that they would find more housing for Amazon employees because younger workers like being closer to work. It's surely not a coincidence that the whole YIMBY movement took off in the tech-heavy SF Bay Area?

Nah, this has been brewing since well before HQ2 was conceived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m very supportive. We are priced out and would be open to a multiplex. We need more equity in housing.

Whatever will be built in the City of Alexandria will be either townhouses and duplexes that will be priced higher than the existing townhouses and duplexes because of land costs or 3 to 6 unit plexes that will be rentals. That is what is happening in Arlington (that is if the lawsuit is settled). If you can't afford to buy or rent in Alexandria now, why do you think you will be able to afford the new properties that will be priced the same or higher than existing properties?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much of it was driven by the Amazon HQ2 coming to "National Landing." I wonder if Amazon was promised by Arlington (which just passed Missing Middle) and Alexandria that they would find more housing for Amazon employees because younger workers like being closer to work. It's surely not a coincidence that the whole YIMBY movement took off in the tech-heavy SF Bay Area?

Nah, this has been brewing since well before HQ2 was conceived.

Katie Cristol, late of the Arlington County Board, fulfilled her dream of rezoning single family neighborhoods to the east coast. She then left the board with a lawsuit and many people who realized they go duped by Cristol and the builders. If the builders had gone to Arlington County and asked them to rezone single family neighborhoods to multi-family, the board would have laughed them out of their star chamber. But a bunch of white YIMBYs (whose ringleader lives in Alexandria and proclaims himself a refugee from Arlington) got the rezoning done, pending a lawsuit. The builders got the YIMBYs to do their dirty work for them.