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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe people fought a duplex. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/06/some-neighbors-fought-a-duplex-and-won-as-county-approves-more-missing-middle-homes/

I live in an adjoining neighborhood and would welcome a 4-flat or a duplex in my neighborhood. After college I lived in a neighborhood with a mix of SFH, duplexes, and 4-6 flat building with parking in the rear. It had a similar density to central Arlington, plenty of mature trees, and was walking distance to a Westover-like small shopping area. It was a great, vibrant neighborhood with renters and owners, young adults and families.

Here’s a map pin to my old neighborhood for street view purposes 
https://maps.app.goo.gl/igs4y8CLKLnNEyxf9?g_st=ic[/quote]

Nice to see restrictive covenants once again keeping out undesirables. The residents' hood wearing grandparents would be proud [/quote]

I think the issue is that they need to figure out how the restrictive covenants impact the zoning, if at all.  To be fair, this was raised multiple times throughout the community engagement process.  This should have already been addressed by now.  It was very obvious that this was going to be an issue.[/quote]

This. The covenant in that neighborhood is ridiculous - and living nearby can confirm that it is a surprisingly non-diverse older skewing neighborhood intent on keeping large lots as they are. It would be much more appropriate for duplexes to be in this area - or townhouses - given how central it is. The lots are large and the houses are being torn down and huge SFH put up; the house in the corner of 15th and Harrison that the article refers to is on a huge lot - it’s a single plus two doubles and has n enormous yard. It would make sense to put a duplex there or even split the lot, but neighbors blocked it. I wish the county would have addressed that - if a covenant was put in place 100 years ago concurrently with racist restrictions, it seems reasonable they should no longer be applicable - when Tara was built it was farmland, not the center of Arlington [/quote]

Tara does not have the building covenants   They are in Lacey Forest, Larchmont, and Wynnewood. [/quote]

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