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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sense of entitlement among S Arlington folks who want gentrification is unbelievable.[/quote]

That's rich. People who owned property in the neighborhoods prior to adoption of the Pike Neighborhoods Plan are "entitled" for being mad that they were given a bait and switch? They agreed to far more than their share of committed affordable housing based on the premise that the streetcar was going to bring gentrification that was sure to push out their neighbors. And now, not only is the gentrification not going to happen for some of the neighborhoods, but hundreds of units of committed affordable housing (mostly for families) are coming on line anyway with no new transit plan for the increased population density, no plan for the overcrowding of the schools (because one new school in south Arlington isn't going to address it), and a couple neighborhoods targeted for a lot of the affordable housing planed in Arlington. Every time a unit gets torn down in Westover, it gives the AH developers another justification for more infill development in Arlington Mill, which is now 40% committed affordable housing and can't even attract a new Subway restaurant to open up because, SURPRISE, businesses do their market research and realize that the neighborhood can't support any new businesses. I don't live in the neighborhood, but I absolutely understand how people of modest economic means, whose only real investment might have been a condo that is now worth $40,000 less than when they bought it 10 years ago, are justified in being upset. Is that selfish? Maybe, but certainly no more selfish than everyone in this thread who's made six figures or more in equity in the same period of time, but who feels like they are the ones getting the shaft because they can't walk their kids to a small, neighborhood school and instead have to put them on a bus for a 10 minute ride to one of the "best" elementary schools in the state. Okay.

It's called perspective, and some people need to get some. [/quote]

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