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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP above, one more issue to mention - townhouses at barcroft apartments. A certain person in the affordable housing lobby mentioned that someday the apartment complex's owners could sell out and build luxury townhomes. That is what happened in westover. But, this is not north arlington. The affordable housing lobby would lose their mind making sure that never happened. They would find a way to buy the entire  or more acres with loans and gifts from everywhere because the Pike Plan has so many incentives to keep the complex low income. And, such a sale would be hidden from public view until it was a done deal and nothing can be done about it. Indeed it is a special conservation district in and of itself. And, with the Pike Plan, the Board has a a lot of power to stop any developer from making it into luxury housing. The housing conservation districts the Board just acted on is already in effect for the Pike for a long time now.

You all on the Pike supported the Pike Plan, or failed to realize the affordable housing lobby was pulling the wool over your eyes. Now you get to live with it. [/quote]

To be fair, most of us had no idea about the plan. We were busy with jobs and little children. And our civic association presidents didn't even report back to us on it and just voted and acted how they personally felt (there is literally nothing in our CA minutes about the neighborhoods plan for he entire year prior to the vote to adopt). The plan as written certainly did not reflect what the majority of SFH would have voted for. Additionally, the plan was enacted when the streetcar was coming. In fact it's mentioned in the plan over 100 times. I think the plan needs to be revisited now that the streetcar has been scrapped. That certainly changes what kind of density the area can handle. Infill development here can't be allowed. The infrastructure can't support it. [/quote]

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