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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But there's really NO WAY the republicans will push for affordable housing that is geographically diverse and pushing up into areas like 22207 and 22213, is there? Conservatives may be less willing to push affordable housing, but I can't believe they'll push for ANY of it to go so far North. Would they really? 
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Why wouldn't they?  The idea about the SFH turned duplex/triplex seemed to have been tossed around... Not sure, if they want to put that on it near Lee Highway or further north?  The higher price of the land per square foot is the only difference - but since they are throwing hundreds of millions at this plan - what does it matter?

I really think they should only grandfather in current renters, let the market take over, and not build any new units for this purpose.  
They can give assistance to public service families, cops and firefighters, teachers, etc.  that would serve the county so much better.

FIX THE SCHOOLS and overcrowding first, without the whining that they can only build additions at two schools, not three, because that is too expensive, that they have to use parkland, because underground garages are to expensive, etc. etc.  pay the teachers more... The list goes on.
THEN you can look at the situation again.

If market forces were allowed to take over, South Arlington would thrive just like North Arlington did not too long ago. 
It IS thriving in parts with new businesses coming in, and a lot of new nice buildings.... The Eastern end of the Pike is really nice.
....a former colleague of mine still remembers the time when North Arlington had crappy schools, was run down, and her parents would not send her there.
All parts of this county could easily become very nice and desirable..... With the right leadership.

I generally agree.  And I am old enough to recall when n Arlington was a joke--a scruffy place of computer stores, car dealers, and houses occupied by government drones and cat ladies thought of as too poor to move to a proper burb.  The govt types and cat ladies tortoised it out, flipped the script and sit on gold mines.

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Yep, I remember the first time I ever came to Clarendon.  I'd signed up for a volunteer thing to help out at a homeless shelter and when I came up out of the Clarendon metro I was a little uncomfortable because the area seemed pretty sketchy.  When I met my team at the shelter, we took the kids over to the neighborhood park to play, down the street past a lot of rundown houses.  There weren't other kids there.  Now, years later, my kids play in that same park, which is teeming with kids, and Clarendon is definitely not sketchy![/quote]

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