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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Missing Middle will be a boon to builders who are already banking single family lots along Langston Blvd awaiting upzoning.  They are renting the houses until they can be torn down for MM.

Meanwhile, people who could have bought those houses and lived in them are dealing with a shrinking inventory of somewhat affordable housing in Arlington.

Big winners will be builders who can now put 8 houses instead of one on a lot and the people selling their houses to builders.  [/quote]

Then that would be a win bc the most they can build is an 8 plex.  If the Plan Langston Blvd people get their way, it will be all mid and high rises stretching down Langston.  The best anyone near Langston could hope for is MM.[/quote]

A number of the YIMBYs pushing MM live off Langston Blvd. One has to wonder what their motives might be -- perhaps maximizing their profits on the sale of their s**tshacks.[/quote]

Maybe they want someplace local to downsize, or for their kids to be able to afford homes in the neighborhood? I really can’t imagine how tearing down a SFH along a 4-lane road and replacing it with townhouses or duplexes is going to ruin the “character” of the neighborhood.[/quote]

A good portion of the single family areas in Arlington will be upzoned, not just the areas along Langston Blvd.  So if you live in Dominion Hills on a 6,000 square foot lot,  the lot could be upzoned to allow two duplexes with 4 housing units.  If everyone does it, Dominion Hills will go from a starter home neighborhood to a community of duplexes.  That changes the character from a single family neighborhood with front lawns and back yards to one with 4 housing units and 4 parking pads with  patches of grass in the front and back.

Of course, Arlington County will probably fail to take into account that they have major sewer lines running through the back yards of many parts of Dominion Hills.  Nothing can be built above those sewer lines.  So they can only built one duplex at the front.  
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