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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Board meeting was yesterday. Mi Voc Cuente had about a 100+ people there.
Card? Maybe 10

Game over [/quote]

I'm confused.  Many of the changes CARD was advocating for were included in the plan that was adopted, including the targets for geographic distribution.  Anybody who thought CARD was trying to block the plan was not paying attention.   [/quote]

I don't have a stake in this, but I am curious to see what changes you are referring to that were successfully adopted.   Is it in the specific requirements under the plan, or does the plan just vaguely refer to targets without requring them, which really just kicks the issue down the road?  [/quote]

The plan is better. Card would have liked some language limiting farm percentages in over burdened school zones. Like, don't add new additional AH to a school zone that is already 70%. The AH lobby lost their minds at that suggestion, but it was ultimately right to push for it. I think it helped negotiate a little more. It's still an insane percentage to be dedicating to housing - almost 20%... But it's unlikely they will hit their target anyway. Vihstadt brought up some fairly important issues, but they didn't get any traction. The board and special interests seem to think that columbia pike revitalization is a done deal, but as you go west, that idea gets really shaky. Arlington mill still can't get a commercial tenant for their retail space and the businesses in that crappy little strip mall have been grumbling ... Not sure what their complaints are. There isn't much parking over there, so that might be aggravating everything. If you need to park, you aren't going to drive over there. That leaves your establishment patronized entirely by people within walking distance- who don't have much disposable income. Saturday's meeting was a real kumbaya, feel good affair, and it's touching to hear people's individual stories. It spoils the mood when you start asking the deeper questions of long term costs and overall community development. The people living there will want some services - better transit, desent retail. You need a balance for businesses to set up shop.[/quote]

So what was the outcome? More affordable housing in colombia pike?[/quote]

Right now Columbia pike holds over 30% of the county's affordable housing - under the plan it moves down to 22%.
However, that's with increased density everywhere. 
Also, public land for public good for sort of slipped back into it. Don't agree with that. Got the board to admit that geographic diversity needed to be addressed. The map above shows you the targeted areas. Lee highway is a bit more prominent now. [/quote]

Let me guess, anything in the Yorktown pyramid was spared from the public housing projects[/quote]

The plan focuses on major commuting corridors. They have some hair brained idea that they can turn the SFH's of the Yorktown pyramid into duplexes and triplexes. That worries me, because it won't happen up there. Those homeowners will light torches over that.
However, I could see that happening in the zipcodes around Columbia Pike. Imagine 3 families in those tiny little houses. That's much more likely to play out.[/quote]

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