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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not happening. If anything, Amazon has scared the lobby and the board into thinking that SA will gentrify. Believe me - the AH developers will get a SIGNIFICANT chunk of Amazon money coming to the county. SIGNIFICANT. [/quote]

Well at some point south Arlington homeowners will have to speak up. They don’t, so this is what they get.[/quote]

Speak up to do what exactly? The people who work in the county and make all the zoning regulations already made the rules. They codified segregation. FFS, the Pike isn’t getting any additional transportation upgrades, yet the density continues unchecked. Meanwhile, EFC just made a sector plan that doesn’t even rezone a neighborhood in walking distance to a Metro stop for anything but SFHs and townhouses. It’s by design and completely on purpose. Lee Hwy isn’t going to be upzoned so that it could have CAFs on the edges of the neighborhoods, just like the Pike. Why? On purpose. BFD that they’re going to allow some “missing middle flats” and accessory dwellings. Who’s going to live in those? Not families whose kids qualify for fr/l. The people who will build the accessory units N of Lee Hwy will use them for their childless nanny or au pair, not a family who can’t afford a market rate apartment. Even the “missing middle” housing will be too pricey for them.

It’s the NA homeowners, who claim they care about equity and diversity, who are going to have to do more than just write an occasional check before anything changes. Push for more density, real density, on the edges of your neighborhoods and around the EFC Metro, to allow family-sized CAFs to be built there instead of only on the Pike/Buckingham and some in the R-B corridor. Also, the neighborhood right around National Landing needs to offer new affordable housing opportunities, too, right in 22202.

There are some great schools in SA. The teachers and support staff are top notch. There are many bright, gifted, hard-working kids. But the opportunities for them are not and won’t ever be equitable, even with outside “extra” money, until the schools are less economically segregated. So many kids living in poverty and experiencing the educational barriers that poverty itself presents, all attending just a few schools, makes it harder for those schools to focus on anything other than meeting basic needs. And it contributes to further segregation as families of means within those boundaries don’t send their kids to the schools where their experiences will be so divergent from other Arlington schools. [/quote]

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