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[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]

Oh, yes.  Don't worry, no one will force demotion of your single family house.  :)

What this means is that if you live on a street currently zoned for single family homes, your neighbor can sell their house to a developer who could throw up a multistory, multiunit apartment building [b]as a matter of right.[/b]. There would be no review, no consideration of impacts, and no process in which you can submit a comment.[/quote]

This is false and misleading.

The proposal allows up to 4-plexes on what would currently be single family lots, and they can't be any bigger than the single family home you would otherwise have been able to build there.

I get why you're lying, because the thing I just described simply isn't scary enough to gin up the fear you need to get people to oppose it. But you need to stop.[/quote]

That is not a lie. A developer can build a multistory, multi unit complex by right. Yes, it cannot be larger than the FAR, setback and height limits that were expanded over the years, but that doesn’t negate the fact that such a building will be allowed by right. Or that most homes are currently built to the max allowed by right. [/quote]

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