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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sign on to the YIMBY Facebook page.  Their goal is to have Langston Blvd lined with high rise apartments from Rosslyn to the East Falls Church.   There motto is Arlington for all and the County planning staff is pursuing the same goal.    They brush off concerns about overcrowded schools and lack of parks, parking, and green space.  Everyone will use an electric bike and put their kids in carts attached to bikes.

Look at the intersection of Washington Blvd and Kirkwood
One 70 unit building was just  finished.   The huge Modera (seriously they kept that name) is about halfway up and the 250 unit building on the Red Top site is underway.

That’s the future of Langston Blvd, despite there being thousands of vacant units in Arlington, the County is continuing its push for communal living.

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This is exactly right. "Density" is a word used with a religious fervor by these people. Activists and county staff are pushing through a zoning change for Langston that, despite the lack of access to Metro, will allow massive development in the area.

There is a plan for more schools but it requires building them in our increasingly overstressed parks. I have some great pictures of my son playing Little League on a park that is now the parking lot for Cardinal Elementary. Another example is Discovery, which was built on the once beautiful Williamsburg site. What remains of the park is now astroturf. It's what the urban planner types think of as heaven.[/quote]

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