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[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]

[b]I don't live in Alexandria, but I don't have a problem with that[/b]. 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]

You don't live here, but you want to tell us how we should be governed. This really bothers me. You make a joke about the sewers, you are so witty. The issue with the sewers is that the wastewater infrastructure here is seriously inadequate for the population of people here now. Every time you use a sink, take a shower, take a bath, wash clothes, use your hose, flush your toilet, that infrastructure is taxed and cannot keep up. You think it's funny? The flooding problems have gotten worse, and not just when there is a 100 yr storm or whatever they're called. Some people get raw sewage backed up into their drains (for us, it has been showers, toilets and sinks). We replaced the entire line from our house to the street, and it still happens, which means the problem isn't us, it's them (the city). Our basement has flooded twice to the tune of $30,000+ each time (thank God for Chubb). And if your answer is then I should move, then why should more people move in?

The sewer system issue is just an example of the problems we have here in Alexandria and how putting your fingers in your ears so you don't have to hear about them won't make them go away; they just get worse. That is how things are managed in Alexandria. Look at the schools. They absolutely refuse, with a steel iron fist of no, to build another high school, or to address the insanity of problems ACPS has. No no no no no. The streets flood, no. The pass through traffic causing accidents and traffic jams, no. Car jackings, no. Gun crimes at like every 7-11, no. Drag racing on Duke, Seminary, Telegraph, Potomac Yards, no. Bike lanes, hell yes. More density, everywhere, pack them in, more people, more $1.5 million THs, yes. Who cares about the sewers, the electrical grid, the school capacity, the emergency services capacity, the roads, etc. Who cares. LOL.[/quote]

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