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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Failing schools, imploding commercial real estate, and murders are not quite enough to destroy Alexandria, so the Council is a freight train about to vote on Tuesday to eliminate all SFH zoning.  Yay. [/quote]

Hooray!

Don't worry, OP, they are not eliminating detached one-unit residential buildings. They are simply eliminating zoning that bans everything except detached one-unit residential buildings. Property owners - like you - will now have more options for your property.[/quote]

This!

You know what pays for all the stuff you want, OP? Property tax dollars. From incremental smart development like the ones in this package of reforms.

You can keep your SFH but when you go to sell it, it may sell for more because there will be more options for what it can become, and that will lead to both more tax dollars and more residents as one large house becomes four smaller ones in some places, especially places that support transit. Win-win-win-win. 
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That’s not really how it works if there are any school-aged kids that move in since ACPS has an astronomic per pupil cost.  So a SFH lot now has 8 school-aged kids to the two that previously lived there.  Why would a childless person want to live in a quadplex in a once SFH neighborhood when they could live in Potomac Yard?  [/quote]

7 posts into the thread, and somebody has already asked the single most common question about housing policy, "Why would somebody want something that I don't want?"[/quote]

Just a question.  Who would be the target demographic of a quadplex in a SFH neighborhood?  It would, seemingly, be people with children.  If the children are school-aged that is not a property tax boon. [/quote]

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