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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should rethink and/or eliminate more high density low income housing. That would help a ton. [/quote]

What does low income housing have to do with it?[/quote]

Student generation rates are higher for committed affordable housing (CAFs in Arlington-speak) than any other housing type. When you build 300 unit buildings at .532 students per unit, you end up with a lot of kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fall-2021-Enrollment-Projections-Report.pdf 
rates on page 42[/quote]

So stop building low income housing but continue with market-rate and luxury housing.  Nice.[/quote]

A 300 unit building is going to have approximately 160 kids if it’s a CAF building and 19 if it’s market rate. That’s the math based on existing buildings. [/quote]

Yes, I get that. Even though I don't believe the CAF student generation factor is 8x greater, I know very well that CAFs produce more students (despite what the County and especially APAH wanted to insist upon for years and years.)
The issue with your statement is that it suggests it's ok to further schools with more (affluent) kids but not with poor kids - even if it's because that doesn't continue to overcrowd the schools as much or as quickly.  So, you're accepting of additional overcrowding as long as it's fewer additional kids which inevitably will be wealthier.

How about stop the construction of high-density housing? Period.[/quote]

Yeah, let's get rid of density and encourage sprawl. That's going to improve quality of life for everyone.[/quote]

Arlington County is the smallest geographical county in the country and is already significantly more dense than in decades past.  It cannot and should not be responsible for housing everyone.  There are countless other jurisdictions across the country that can easily increase density.

But this isn't a discussion about the world's housing crisis.  it's about crowded Arlington schools, for heaven's sake.[/quote]

All those Amazon employees have to live somewhere - or so the CB logic goes. Actually heard Matt de Ferranti say something like "what are we supposed tell Amazon when they start moving people here? That they can't have their employees buy in Arlington? We need to increase the housing stock for the people." It's all about getting more revenue because it will not house middle income folks already here. I'd feel better about it if it also had a plan to correlate to more school seats and transit, but let's be honest, there is not really room for more schools in Arlington, at least not the way they have been designed. That's why we're getting ArlTech squeezed on to a tiny parcel that it will share with MPSA.[/quote]

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