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Democrats just swept the election. We all vote liberal! What more do you want from us. We would totally welcome low income housing in those areas. It’s so sad they haven’t moved forward with any.[/quote]

No one in the areas we are talking about (Discovery/Jamestown) welcomes affordable housing in their area.  They ask for it on Lee Highway knowing full-well that those students will end up at Glebe.[/quote]

Where else are you going to put affordable housing north of Lee Highway? Should they tear down a community center to do it? It's not like they can use eminent domain to take a bunch of SFH lots and turn them into apartment buildings.[/quote]

They can just purchase lots as they are available and then rezone. If they can build hundreds of units on top of a polluted old gas station lot into a hillside next to another building on Columbia Pike, they can figure out how to build some on the north side of Lee Hwy in the Nottingham and Discovery zones. [/quote]

You can't build an apartment building on a quarter of an acre, which is on the bigger side of the lots they might be able to get north of Lee Highway. And that assumes they'd be willing to pay more than the builders for the lot. Unless you're advocating for them paving over Chestnut Hills, I don't know what you think they're going to find. Other than the Williamsburg Shopping Center, I'm not even aware of any commercial areas that far north that they could tack a building onto like they did on the parcel you cited.[/quote]

Come take a look at the Shell, then tell me they can't build something north of Lee Hwy. They
Might need two lots rather than one. They can find a way. Will it cost more to produce the same number of units? Possibly. But there are others costs to building AH next to AH in the former parking lot of the AH building across the street from yet more AH. I don't care about how much they build--it will never be enough to actually meet demand. I care where they build.[/quote]

You have no clue, do you. Let's say they manage to snag a full quarter acre in one of those neighborhoods. Great, they have a quarter acre. Maybe sometime in the next ten years an adjoining lot will come up for sale. Maybe the county will get it, or maybe the owner will sell to a developer willing to pay more. But maybe they get it, then they have a whole half acre. Yay! So they put a few garden apartments there, but oops, there's not enough parking because there's no space for a lot and the street won't accommodate that many cars, and the people living there need cars because there's no ART bus service that far back into the neighborhoods.

Yeah, that will get some affordable housing built right quick.[/quote]

ART bus lines can be run anywhere, but I was talking about ON Lee Hwy, just on the north side. The Discovery, Nottingham, and Taylor boundaries extend all the way to Lee Hwy. Jamestown would be a bit trickier, but a minor boundary adjustment incorporating Lee Hwy might do it. Also, I don't give a fig about your parking. Why should I? There are a bunch of apartment parkers all over the SFH neighborhoods along the Pike and everywhere else because they don't build adequate parking anywhere. Not sure why you think your neighborhoods are so special that you can't accommodate exactly what the Pike and other neighborhoods have been asked to accept. [/quote]

Seriously? Plenty of us have been saying to build on both sides of Lee Highway, I was giving you benefit of the doubt that you meant you wanted to go further north into those areas. But no, you were just making up some ridiculous strawman that people are only willing to have development on the south side just to maintain your own sense of victimhood. I can't believe I wasted time responding to this nonsense.[/quote]

I was not the person who said it would only be built on the S side of Lee Hwy. Frankly, the way Glebe is going, that wouldn't be a bad thing either. Build it on both sides. And further into the neighborhoods. That's going to be more difficult than along a major transit corridor, but not impossible. [/quote]

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