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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/26/county-board-approves-contested-ballston-development/
Oh look, more affordable housing and family units clustered right in Ballston. All to enrich developers. What school will reap the benefits of this decision? Glebe? Hey, as long as it's walkable who cares about overcrowding. Good thing the superintendent is increasing class sizes.

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Family-sized units, yes. But where is this affordable housing of which you speak? These are ownership units, not CAFs. [/quote]

True, the Ballston project does not involve AH CAFs. However, the County did rezone the property to allow for higher density. Essentially we're replacing a church and a daycare (which produce no children) with 26 townhomes and 58 apartments all zoned to Glebe Elementary and W-L High School. The County Board will justify this by pointing to the fact that the student generation factor from multifamily units is low compared to SFHs and CAFs, and these buildings generate tax revenue that the County can spend on other things. However, there are so many of these multifamily projects going on around Arlington that in the aggregate they are contributing more kids to our schools that the County Board wants to admit. Also, with respect to AH, the developers are often the same people- they just build their AH under a different corporate entity. So trade-offs are happening all over the place, where developers will agree to build more AH (supposedly "at cost") in one area of the county in exchange for a density waiver that allows them to build more super expensive townhomes/apartment buildings in another area of the county. It all increases the total number of households in Arlington though and increases the seat deficit faster than we can build out of it. The County Board views this as the School Board's problem, which is really unfair because the School Board has no authority to buy more land for APS and it has no control over the budget allocation that it gets from the County Board.[/quote]

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