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[quote=Anonymous]I think if people buy into a SFH neighborhood- good for them, if you want a town house - buy a town house... ( I quite like town houses!)
I don't think it's cool for the county to come in after the fact and change the character of a neighborhood. 
FYI!!!
I do not live in SFH in Yorktown. 
There are quite a few older homeowners that think this is a swell idea. They have lived in the county for 30+ years and need help to afford to stay. Their taxes have out paced their fixed income and would like to age in place. Renting out basements seems appealing. While I am sympathetic to their plight- it's not a very neighborly stance. They had the benefit of living and raising their families in a nicely layed out, single family home neighborhood. The gen x, and millennial families that are paying through the nose to move into Arlington deserve no less.
Besides, should something like that come about it will not be affordable. The developers who have the cash to build in north Arlington are paying a premium for that land. Right now they are building 1.5 mil dollar homes- and happily letting them sit till there is a buyer. The money isn't there for them to build anything more modest. If they are allowed to split SFH plots into multi family - it will be three 800k units. Not affordable. 
I know it would be better for Yorktown to carry some of the load here and it seems AH high density along Lee highway would be the best way to achieve that.[/quote]

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