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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington County - What Happened?

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/12/27/developing-police-investigating-shots-fired-near-courthouse/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/11/10/acpd-investigating-shots-fired-in-halls-hill-neighborhood/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/police-investigating-gunfire-that-damaged-window-in-green-valley/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/04/30/just-in-schools-secured-as-acpd-investigates-shots-fired-call-near-ballston/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/04/28/one-arrested-after-report-of-shot-fired-outside-of-wakefield-hs-on-saturday/[/quote]

+1. I live in Arlington and crime is a real problem here. The criminals know that our leadership is soft on crime and that there is no real punishment for what they do. We have tons of stolen packages and cars broken into into my neighborhood. And we're not immune from gun violence, as the links above show. We even have a well-known gun store right in the heart of Clarendon.[/quote]

The crime is from all the low income housing and apartments that Arlington is approving for development/subsidizing. The bottom 40% of the income distribution commits more than 2/3rds of the violent crime. The top 40% of the income distribution only commits 18% of  the violent crime. If the income composition of the county changes, the crime rate changes with it. Combining this with criminal justice reforms that remove three strike laws for felonies and expunging Minors criminal records is a recipe for disaster. The reality of it is that most of the crime is committed by  an especially violent 1% of the population. Mandatory life sentences for violent criminals with prior felonies would reduce the crime rates by more than half. [/quote]

Unfortunately, Arlington keeps wanting to build more of that housing, including in North Arlington. Check out Plan Langston Boulevard. Arlington had a good run, but unfortunately it will continue to change for the worse as there's a push for more density everywhere and fewer SFHs. [/quote]

This is happening in MoCo too. The Council just passed the University Boulevard Plan despite overwhelming opposition from the community (because who cares about voters and residents, right Natali Fani Gonzalez, Evan Glass, and Andrew Friedson?) and basically spelled the end for SFH zoning in that area, though consider it a model for the rest of the county.

Meanwhile, the council has also passed 20 year tax abatements for developers. So infrastructure and schools will suffer, property taxes go up, and more of the same decline for MoCo. [/quote]

10 angry old people yelling at a community meeting is not "overwhelming opposition".

Get a clue, dud. 99% of people have something called a "life" and don't attend those silly meetings.

And those people want more housing.

You lost. Get over it.  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

DP. Curious why you think the plan will lower housing prices because the land and housing prices have gone up every other time we’ve increased zoning. Land cost is a major driver of housing cost so if the land becomes more expensive how do you lower prices for comparable units?[/quote]

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