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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Arlington county board is selling out homeowners... why? No one asked for this. [/quote]

Let me take a stab at some reasons. Spoiler alert: none of them are good.

[list] Without any more buildable land, ACB's only metric they care about is maximizing "tax revenue per acre". Basically, the county is one big spreadsheet to them where they just want to see the numbers go up. Screw education, parks, basic infrastructure, etc. [/list]
[list] ACB wants to increase the number of renters at the expense of owners. Renters are generally more transient, younger, and poorer. All of these demos skew heavily Democrat, consolidating their hold on power. Democratic voters also generally are more likely to be in favor of tax increases for a variety of things (see that "maximizing revenue per acre" thing above). Renters also follow county politics less, allowing ACB to get away with a lot more stuff. [/list]
[list] MM is a fantastic virtue signaling exercise. Plus coating it in the language of progressives (zoning is racist, blah blah) ensures less pushback from a Democratic voter base. [/list]
[list] MM is a long term way to decrease desirability of schools (due to the obvious eventual overcrowding in the short/medium term), meaning no need to invest more in ACB's biggest expense. If they get really lucky, there will be long term enrollment decline (because renters are younger, and the schools have become not great), so they could even cut funds! Education is an expense. ACB wants revenue only. [/list]
[list] Typical white guilt/savior complex [/list]

And before someone complains, I've voted Democrat for as long as I can remember. So please spare me the "omg you're a Trump lover" rhetoric please. [/quote]

Honestly, I don't think Trump could have come up with something as devious as what the ACB is doing to benefit developers.   Arlington Democrats will continue to support the ACB until they are forced to move from Arlington because of ever increasing prices.  [/quote]

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