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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://alextimes.com/2022/05/city-holds-zone-text-amendment-community-meeting/

June 23: Planning Commission

July 5th: City Council

Additional height bonus for subsidized housing in Alexandria. Old Town was removed. Notably Mt Vernon Avenue in Del Ray is still vulnerable.

It looks like staff took anything zoned commercial, but not industrial, and anything already Multifamily Medium or High Density Residential.

Which includes Mt Vernon Avenue. Alexandria isn’t a big city. With GIS and everything parceled it should easy to exclude that street and I think Del Ray has a historic district, like Old Town and “Parker Gray”. So if the intent is to preserve Mt Vernon Avenue and the heart of Del Ray, it shouldn’t even be for consideration.

In fact I can’t think of a single site that is appropriate for a height wavier, that isn’t already designated (Potomac Yard). Again the city isn’t big.

Not sure why Del Ray is even a consideration. Without Old Town and Del Ray, Alexandria is a worse Arlington, still prohibitively expensive and failing schools.[/quote]

OP, instead of verbally tripping all over yourself, just admit you don’t want lower income people to be given an opportunity to live in Del Ray.[/quote]

GMAB. NP here. There are plenty of Section 8 housing apartments in Del Ray. Seriously. Do you even know anything about Del Ray?  Arlandria, the corner of Commonwealth & Monroe, the area surrounding Cora Kelly, Glebe Road, north part of Commonwealth, etc. For real. [/quote]

[b]So, keep "The Poors" penned into the few existing garden apartments scattered around the fringes of the neighborhood [/b]and give yourself a pat on the back for living in a socioeconomic diverse community. Sure.

And lumping Arlandria with Del Ray is misleading at best. They're two adjacent but separate neighborhoods. Do better.[/quote]

No, they are scattered on the fringes, they are located in the neighborhood. It's clear you haven't spent much time at all in Del Ray.

You are right Arlandria and Del Ray are separate neighborhoods. There is one apartment building that is run by Alexandria City in Arlandria - the greyone behind MOMs market - the rest of the apartments are market rate and there are also houses in that area as well.  They had a plan to improve Arlandria way back in 2008 or so but the real estate bubble so it never happened and it looks like they are bringing it up again. Arlandria has been built up by the community that lives there. There is no reason for you to dump on Arlandria and act like it's not as good as Del Ray.  The shops and restaurants are just as good as the ones in Del Ray.[/quote]

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