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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Solution: More apartments in North Arlington. More single family housing in South Arlington.[/quote]

Cool, go find me a site in the Discovery zone where you could put an apartment building.[/quote]

Exactly.  People who advocate for this aren't realistic to think it's going to change the Discovery/Nottingham/Jamestown situation.  All those folks say, put them along Lee Highway b/c they know they will all be sent o Glebe.  [/quote]

The biggest obstacle to the issues that divide north and south is the status quo. When I learned that an senior APS administrator recently chose to live in the discovery zone, that told me how powerful the status quo is.

I'd simply like to see more economically integrated schools. The only ones we have now are option schools. So I'm in favor of more of them. Yes, that's an isentifiably SA white MC priority but that doesn't mean it's not a desirable one, or without benefits for the entire county. Making high scoring schools with almost zero free lunch students a priority benefits no one who cannot afford it and creates very powerful communities of interest that look out for hyperlocal interests. Likewise, the argument that we need to the "keep the community together" is basically a justification for concentrating poverty.  It's nice to have choices, whoever you are. Option schools do that. The supposed downside is that option schools tend to draw UMC out of struggling neighborhood schools but the truth is they weren't ever going to that school in the first place.  They'd have moved or gone private first.[/quote]

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