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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does this mean granny flats allowed?[/quote]

Yes. And that's reallly the true intent of most of the people backing the SFH zoning chnages. They want to built an ADU, not a fourplex.

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This is such BS.  It’s not about “granny flats.” (A soothing sounding term invented for ADUs.  Once legalised, the development industry then seeks to change zoning so that ADUs can be built a large as many houses and owned by investors, not owner-occupants.  They are proposing this in DC).

[b]This is about allowing apartment and condo buildings as a matter of right everywhere[/b].[/quote]

I don't live in Alexandria, but I don't have a problem with that. It's ridiculous that in large parts of every locality, the only permitted housing type is a detached house, intended for a small nuclear family, with a yard. The most expensive housing type for people, the most costly housing type for localities in terms of services, the most inefficient land use in terms of housing. Yet it must be protected from pollution by multi-unit housing (and the people who live in multi-unit housing)!!!!!!! Because ... well I'm not sure why. Sewer capacity, or something.[/quote]

Me either! Because it actually means allowing [b]Four unit[/b] apartment and condo buildings that [b]take up no more space than a SFH otherwise would have[/b].

Well done Alexandria. Proud of us.[/quote]

For what? All this does is change the demographics of the people who live there. It prioritizes childless adults and pushes people with kids out. Those with big families are the biggest losers. I guess maybe that helps reduce the size of Alexandria’s absurdly large schools. [/quote]

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