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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have given the thumbs up to the proposal and the middle finger to current residents.

At least there will be an annual cap to the permits and a design book that developers and future slumlords will have to choose from.

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/03/09/arlington-planning-commission-gives-thumbs-up-to-missing-middle-zoning-changes/[/quote]

Many current residents support the proposal.[/quote]

Current apartment renters. Basically builders started with urban village model (high density tapering off from transit hubs) which is a very sensible model, and built higher and higher, and then courted those rental “residents” to support high density in all of Arlington, abandoning smart growth and urban village. 
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Residents are residents, no? Or do only some residents count as residents?[/quote]

I wonder if those apartment dwellers who supposedly support the proposal were informed that missing middle housing will start at $600K for a one bedroom.[/quote]

I wonder if you have been paying any attention at all to the many residents of Arlington who have actually showed up to support the proposal, which has now been adopted.[/quote]

Adoption by the planning commision is not the board vote whch is 3/18.  P a47 on unit by type, income, price, rent https://arlington.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=44&event_id=1871&meta_id=216655

The fact is ARL has no one to blame but itself for the max out on impervious surface for the tear downs.  3 bedroom ranch does not become a 2 story on the same footprint with the prior usable yard square footage.  Hence it is /was they buy for less than 1m , tear down, build to the max for 2.5m plus.

Frankly missing middle will result in build to the max with more vehicles.  So that Mckinley monster would be 8 cars instead of 2-3.[/quote]

And fewer spaces mandated for off street parking.  It’s really going to class up the neighborhoods.  Don’t forget all of your new friends with barking dogs![/quote]

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