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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was there a meeting last night? 
Someone mentioned it on the real estate thread, and implying David Cristeal was there showing that AHMP up on screen. That didn’t happen did it?
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It wasn't Cristeal. It was someone else (didn't take note of his name). He was at the poster boards with APS staff, actually he may even have been someone from APS staff but I thought he said he worked in housing. He did not give a presentation on stage. He responded with the AHMP when the McKinley parents asked why there isn't more affordable housing in the upper upper north. He simply said that there is a "plan," specifically for Lee Hwy for the "missing middle," but it hasn't come to fruition yet. 
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Missing middle is not the same as AH. Missing middle means people making $80K-$150K who complain that they can't afford to buy a starter home in Arlington anymore because prices start at $800K+. Just to be clear, if there is a plan to build "missing middle" housing along Lee Highway, they are not talking about FARMS families.

Westover *has* AH. In fact, APAH is in the process of converting a building there right now. This is also why Westover can't understand why any plan to "diversify" APS has to be *only* on the back of our walk zone. If this is truly a community priority, then let's just go full on with that demographics map that busted up Williamsburg too. We're not doing that because diversity is not really a community priority for most of Arlington-- we're not as liberal as we like to think. If we were, APAH and all the banks and developers who fund them would not be concentrating all of the AH construction into West Columbia Pike where it is most profitable, which is the root of the high FARMS rate at Kenmore and fights about Wakefield. Nina Janopaul pulls down her $200K/year salary running APAH and frankly doesn't care what her organization's decisions mean to APS diversity. This should not be Westover's problem to fix. The problem is the County's overall housing plan. [/quote]

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