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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m for it. [/quote]

And you don’t live in an area where they want to implement this. 2-3 households on a 5k square foot lot is not feasible. There are parking problems already without this zoning, and the schools are overcrowded, as it is. Another idiotic idea from the board. Please vote these clowns and crooks out.[/quote]

Are you kidding? I grew up in a twin (nicer version of what they call a duplex here) on exactly that size lot. My street was a mix of SFHs, duplexes, and the occasional quadplex apartment building. The result was a thriving neighborhood with price points accessible to a variety of middle class working people. I don’t understand why Arlington is so afraid of this.

And from what I’ve seen, it’s the boomers who have gone full NIMBY. As if a 2 bedroom cottage on a 10,000 SF lot was a sustainable building choice for an inner ring suburb of the nation’s Capitol. Us working Millennials want choices we can afford, given that we make too much for all the affordable housing aimed at the poorest of the poor, and we can’t afford a $2m McMansion. In the limited places they exist in Arlington,  fee simple row houses and duplexes are some of the fastest properties to move because they are affordable to more people and give you at least 1-2 walls to yourself. They also provide a good option for older folks looking to downsize from their own 5 bedroom SFHs.

Of course they aren’t going to be cheap when they’re brand new, but they are always going to be cheaper than similarly aged housing stock that’s SFH. And it’s only a matter of time before every existing postwar house is either torn down or remodeled/expanded beyond the affordability of a two middle income earner home. We need to start planning for that by putting more homes in the pipeline now. [/quote]

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