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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Susan will likely struggle to find that any plan or proposal is sufficiently planned or researched, because when your political base is built upon opposing stuff, it's sorta hard to figure out what you should be for. That and she seems to desperately want to be part of the Democratic establishment, which is gross. At least John Vihstadt had the courage and decency not to pretend to be some he wasn't.
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Yes, this! Playing footsie with NIMBYs is a losing game for anyone who cares about solving problems. When local NIMBY groups say they want “better planning,” “smart growth,” or “budget forecasts,” it’s all subterfuge. They could get each and every one of those things, and they’ll still be unsatisfied. Because their real goal is to oppose new development, anywhere, full stop. They don’t like tall buildings, they don’t want more people to live here, and they don’t want the look of their neighborhoods to change (even if the residents change as the wealth required to live there surges).

Maybe Susan will learn that lesson as a board member after she sees the usual NIMBYs rally against every affordable housing project that comes to the board, despite their insistence that they “support affordable housing.”[/quote]`

The boomers are slowly checking out of Arlington through death or moving to nicer places.  They are losing their political power daily.   About 60% f the households in Arlington now live in rentals and by about 2030, it will be 75%. Even the Expanded Housing Options now being challenged will result in more rentals than homeownership.  Plans are proceeding for several affordable housing buildings, including the high rise that will replace the garden style Leckey Apartment behind the Lee Heights Shops.  DiFerrante and Cunningham will be the only members who live in single family houses, and they have shown no concern for owners of single family houses.

Arlington's board is becoming more in tuned with renters and  homeowners in multifamily housing.   Lame members like Garvey who lives in Fairlington will pay her usual lip service to single family owners until another renter gets on the board. [/quote]

Ha! Boomers are the only ones with $$$...but the county would prefer they live in new assisted living facilities that county is building. Assisted living will help provide a pipeline of money to VHC.

And please [b]cite your 75% renters[/b] in the county by 2030.[/quote]

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