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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:05 - 55 hundred is quite cheap for this area -$2200 for 2 bed/bath? Any less and it would be the same price as the market rate affordable units! Are you aware that the food star developer is very aware of the risk they are taking by even building there? Yes, risk. You think those high end townhomes on buchanan will be expensive relative to other parts of arlington and well quickly? Are you aware that much of the central and west end of the pike is under the neighborhoods plan that requires all of the market affordable units to stay affordable, whether CAF or not? Are you aware that as we type on this silly website the county board is changing the rules so that even mixed-use developments must have affordable units along the pike? Are you not aware that AHC and the other developers and AH advocates will make sure that all market rate affordable housing stays affordable and isn't turned into high-end housing? The county board (well, the developers actually) have already rigged the system along the pike to keep it cheap. That is the whole point of the Pike to the county - a place for poorer people to live.

Free market does not rule the day along the Pike. The county has seen to that. They have imposed all kinds of requirements to keep the pike from gentrifying.[/quote]

Do you not want poorer people to have a place to live?  Trust me, I think there does need to be much, much  more AH built in N. Arlington, I do worry about the true motives of some of the AH developers, and I understand a lot of the concerns here, but you also have to realize that historically the Columbia Pike Corridor has been one of the more affordable parts of Arlington.  I bought in this area knowing and understanding that. 22204 is also one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes on t he eastern seaboard and I love that.  And no, I am not a senior  citizen who hates white middle class families.  I am in my 30's.  My oldest child attends one of the schools that this this thread is purportedly about, and  we are happy there.  [/quote]

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