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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county needs more parks. There are plenty of opportunities to add affordable housing along Langston. [/quote]

Langston already has plenty of affordable garden apartments and apartment buildings from Rosslyn all the way to Falls Church. What more do you want? [/quote]

Per the Affordable Housing Master Plan, the County wants to add 2000 units to Langston, which will comprise 11% of the total county share.[/quote]

What are they going to tear down to build these units?[/quote]

One of the communities  being torn down is the Leckey Apartments behind the Lee Heights Shops.   They will be replaced with a mid-rise that will provide twice as many units.  There is plenty of undeveloped  land on the north side of Langston Blvd including the used car places and worn out retail. There are many older complexes like the one at the end of N Cleveland St that should be razed and replaced with mid rises that will provide more units.

Plenty of space for those housing units. [/quote]

Check out  Plan Langston Blvd.  For this to really work, it’s my understanding that a number of properties would have to be consolidated to make space for mid- and high- rises (the building footprint, alleys to serve the buildings, loading areas, etc).  People would have to be willing to sell and a lot of the current “highway-frontage” owners like their cash-cow strip malls.  There would also be “neighborhood hubs” like where the current Lyon Village Shopping Center sits.  If it were ever fully realized, there would be walkable neighborhoods all along the corridor and shuttles to get you up and down the corridor.

Idk how feasible it is but you should check out their online info.  It’s a lot.[/quote]

The Lyon Village shopping center sits on Spout Run so building underground parking is nearly impossible.  It might be helped by the Spout Run water management planned for the pawn shop site across the street.

The consolidations are becoming more possible as the current generation of owners are tiring of the work required to maintain the cash cows.  The cash can make more money for them than worrying about putting new roofs on run down buildings and finding the next shady retail tenant. [/quote]

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