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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes these low density neighborhoods so attractive?  The low density.  If we build everything up, they will be less attractive.  My neighborhood has a nice mix of apartments, townhomes, and detached homes, but that balance is important.  If you get rid of sf zoning, it will tip.[/quote]

My high density neighborhood is very attractive. The notion that duplexes, four plexes and small multifamily ruin neighborhoods is just demented. take a walk sometime outside of your own neighborhood. (especially since walking in your charmless no-sidewalks neighborhood isn’t much fun.) [/quote]

The point isn’t that low density is more attractive, meaning looks nicer. It’s that Arlington, and a few other close-in suburbs, have both proximity to jobs and amenities AND the type of housing that is most-prized by families, which is SFH detached. Arlington also has higher density, including townhouses, 2-3 bedroom condos, and rental apartments, but that’s not what a young family wants. And if they can’t get what they want in Arlington, they move out to the exurbs. You’re not going to build your way into making them want to live in multifamily housing. If they wanted that, there are options that exist and at a lower PP than MM will deliver. What they want, a SFH, does not exist at the price point they want, and MM won’t change that. [/quote]

Plenty of families live in rowhouses [/quote]

We have townhomes in Arlington. And yes, families occupy them. But they aren't more affordable than SFHs, especially not when they’re new builds and as large or larger than the older SFH stock. And there are many places where this is already allowed, by right, and more where this could make sense. But MM on a 6000 sqft lot in the middle of a random street isn’t bringing townhomes, it’s brining a one bedroom  6 plex. So, not housing for families. And not particularly affordable either. None of eliminating SFH zoning across the board will address any of this.[/quote]

It’s not about housing at all, not affordable or attainable housing, anyway.  That’s just cover for socially engineering a certain kind of “walkable 15 minute community.”

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