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[quote=Anonymous][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!)
[b]I don't think it's cool for the county to come in after the fact and change the character of a neighborhood. [/b]
FYI!!!
I do not live in SFH in Yorktown. 
[b]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. [/b]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]

1. This is exactly how everyone else feels, too!  I bought my SFH with the same expectations.  In fact, earlier in the thread a poster was describing this exact sentiment: he bought a SFH in a nice family neighborhood - it's not cool for the county to come in and artificially alter the neighborhood and its schools by bringing in large amounts of people that need assistance and can't contribute.
Let market forces dictate and let the area develop organically.  Arlington is a very small place!!
That said; an elementary school in far north Arlington going from 2% to 15% farms will not change anything at all - you won't even notice.  But a school going from 40% to 55%, or 60 to 75% is not good.   Especially if it was just trending the other way.

2. Senior home owners do NOT pay real estate taxes in Arlington!  Neither do some military service members.  This was on the ballots not too long ago and won.  When they are talking about seniors aging in place they are talking about seniors that have rented an apartment all their lives.  Not seniors that are sitting on a 2 million dollar lot they bought for 15K  a few decades ago.  I don't think you need to worry about them.  Their children will be the only ones who can afford Arlington, if the county continues this path... The families "in the middle" will be the ones moving out of Arlington, because they cannot shoulder the tax burden and real estate prices for overcrowded mediocre schools that the board apparently has in mind...  But hey, it's ok for them to commute!  However, a cab driver or freshly immigrated families must not be forced to commute - they HAVE to live in this small expensive county.  That's at least the County Board's opinion....

I cannot fathom, why they think this would be a good idea for the county.[/quote]

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