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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh. I live near Rocklands in Virginia Square. We have SFHs, duplexes, multiplexes, and apartment buildings all on the same square block. We are fine and living here is great. Not sure why people are so pissed off.  Most of Arlington near the rosslyn-ballston corridor is already dense and we have vibrant neighborhoods with diverse housing options. [/quote]

That’s great for you that you prefer a denser neighborhood. I have friends in dense parts of DC as well that love it. They would never dream of moving to Westover or Maywood or any other similar place.

Those of us that deliberately chose non-dense neighborhoods even those with smaller and older homes did so because we don’t want that lifestyle. I like being surrounded by other homes and yards and not having the street filled with cars. That’s not racist, it’s not classist. It’s a lifestyle preference. And yes, as soon as a neighbor sells and their home is replaced by a 6 or 8 plex I will absolutely lose a ton of equity in my own home so this impacts my financial future as well. [/quote]

If your neighbor's 1-unit building is replaced by a 6-unit or 8-unit building, your property value will increase.[/quote]

DP- I don’t give a flip about the property value. This is my home where we intend to stay. I didn’t move here to have a bunch of condos/dense housing. I chose my neighborhood specifically for the quiet lifestyle. [/quote]

OK, but other people are using the "but my property value" argument.

I don't know why a duplex or a fourplex would be louder than a oneplex, though.[/quote]

I'm a PP pointing to both.  While I am living there I chose a quiet neighborhood, not the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor for a reason.  Second, yes property values.  If it's your turn to buy a new house in a quiet neighborhood, you're no longer looking at mine since it's next to a 6-unit apartment building.  The potential breadth of buyers has constricted dramatically.  So in the short and long term I lose.

[b]Did someone really ask why a 6 plex will cause more noise than a SFH? Really? That's now 6 units' worth of families, 6 units' worth of cars, 6 units' worth of garbage cans being dragged to the street, and so on and so on.  It's increased density and that includes noise.  Again, which some of us specifically did not want and now potentially could have forced upon us.[/b]

The argument is "well they'll start by only approving 40 or 50 per year".  That's all well and good unless you're on the block where one of those is being built.  [/quote]

Which is louder, a 6-unit building with 1-3 people per unit, or a one-unit building of equivalent size with a nuclear family with four kids plus grandparents plus some adult siblings?[/quote]

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