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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I see your point but in Arlington the problem is that the CB has zero plans for funding all the required infrastructure including schools.  Millennials are going to have kids.  Our schools are overcrowded, even with Covid departures, and they have zero inclination or opportunity to build more schools.  Transportation isn't complete enough to provide bus service into far reaches of the county.

It's a nice idea but cramming more people into a space that doesn't have the necessary infrastructure only hurts both current and new residents.[/quote]

Arguably, we don’t have the infrastructure to support 6,000 SF McMansions with 5 toilets covering nearly every inch of an 8,000 SF lot, but all we seem to require for those are planter boxes of questionable efficiency and paver stones for their 8-car driveways. Not every smaller home is going to be filled with kids. And at any rate, you use the taxes from these properties to build out the additional marginal infrastructure needed.

I much prefer market solutions to building more homes accessible to a variety of people all over the county, then pretending we are doing our part by giving away a lifetime of free or cheap housing along the Pike to a limited number of poor people who more often than not have zero connection to Arlington and who almost certainly have kids.

I’m a N/A homeowner, by the way. [/quote]

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