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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I see your point but in Arlington the problem is that the CB has zero plans for funding all the required infrastructure including schools.  Millennials are going to have kids.  Our schools are overcrowded, even with Covid departures, and they have zero inclination or opportunity to build more schools.  Transportation isn't complete enough to provide bus service into far reaches of the county.

It's a nice idea but cramming more people into a space that doesn't have the necessary infrastructure only hurts both current and new residents.[/quote]

Arguably, we don’t have the infrastructure to support 6,000 SF McMansions with 5 toilets covering nearly every inch of an 8,000 SF lot, but all we seem to require for those are planter boxes of questionable efficiency and paver stones for their 8-car driveways. Not every smaller home is going to be filled with kids. And at any rate, you use the taxes from these properties to build out the additional marginal infrastructure needed.

I much prefer market solutions to building more homes accessible to a variety of people all over the county, then pretending we are doing our part by giving away a lifetime of free or cheap housing along the Pike to a limited number of poor people who more often than not have zero connection to Arlington and who almost certainly have kids.

I’m a N/A homeowner, by the way. [/quote]

+100

The bs requirements now for the massive new builds do not account for the impacts of these enormous houses. I also live in N Arlington and I would welcome denser zoning in our neighborhood. If you don't like it, make sure you sell to a family not a developer - funnily, when it comes to their house, most people go for the $$$. I also question the schools issue. Schools are currently overcrowded, but my youngest is 3 and preschools that my older kids were waitlisted for are increasingly advertising openings. Which isn't to say the school age population won't grow, but I'm wondering how big his cohort will be when he gets to elementary school. I generally believe land should be market rate this close to the city - which means if someone values the land enough for a single family home, they can buy it - but if a developer values it more to put a duplex or quadplex up, let them buy it. Then maybe my single friends won't be exiled to Loudon county bc the neighborhood we grew up in is hitting $3-4M homes (which is ridiculous)[/quote]

That’s an interesting anecdote about the pre schools, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people were keeping their youngest kids home longer bc there aren’t vaccines for them yet.[/quote]

The people buying houses on Arlington with young kids can afford a SAHM and nanny, so don’t need care and a communal pre school is less cool for now with COVID[/quote]

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