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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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NP here. I thought the entire premise of upzoning is that it will increase the supply of “affordable” housing and decrease the average price of housing, thereby making housing more affordable. At least that’s what several members of city council ran on and the mayor has been pushing. And now PP is claiming that upzoning is for increasing the collected real property taxes.

Which is it?[/quote]

The entire premise of zoning changes to allow a wider range of housing types is: to allow a wider range of housing types. This will have many benefits.[/quote]

A wide range of housing types is already available. What are these “benefits” of eliminating SFH zoning in Alexandria? [/quote]

1. More housing
2. more tax revenue
3. higher property values for existing owners[/quote]

4. More smaller landlords who are unlikely to properly maintain the properties.

Let’s be honest, that’s the real problem. When you are taking about quadplexes you are taking about renters and landlords. Not the type of landlords that maintain large complexes, but the type who are more likely to maintain older residential properties with little exterior maintenance or care for the neighbors to the property. That’s this issue. And it’s rarely an issue who rents the property but who maintains its. [/quote]

But these would be [b]new[/b] residential properties...[/quote]

For now. And 10 years from now?

I have kids in college in nice, newer quadplexes that my kids have to beg to be maintained. Two different colleges in nice areas. [/quote]

I live in a Division I college town. Single family home neighborhoods are being destroyed by the new laws that have  passed that allow the new quadplexes.  Parking is an extreme problem. The homeowners in the neighborhoods do not want quadraplexes.  The rentals are expensive. No way do they provide affordable housing.

The builders association lobbied for the change.  There is no land available near the college to build on so they are destroying existing single family developments to build the quadplexes.[/quote]

Residents of college towns against housing for college students![/quote]

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