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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP- Get bent. 172 ah units is nothing. Douglas park has 1,000’s. Also GP has a high percentage of units reserved for seniors. 
[b]Quit trying to make Alcova seem like it’s mostly lower class[/b]. It’s not.[/quote]

I'm not going to tell you that Alcova is lower class, and I don't think this person was either. There are both working class and middle class families in Alcova, even before Gillam gets build. Alcova Heights definitely has some $1M homes, but it also has apartments, condos, and duplexes, with people of all income levels. It's not any nicer than Arlington Heights or Penrose or Barcroft, all of which are rarely have a house under $500K these days. It's just that it has no school in its own zone and is within 1 mile of 5 other schools. Does that make it able to swing the demographics? Maybe.

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If you take the entire neighborhood out of Barcroft, or even half, there aren't enough students zoned to Barcroft and too many zoned to Fleet. Where would Barcroft pull students from that wouldn't raise its fr/l rate more than just pulling in Gilliam Place (which has a limited number of family units)? The only adjacent areas outside of the Barcroft neighborhood itself are low income. Fleet can take the duplexes and apartments closest to them that are cut off from the rest of Alcova. The rest, which is mainly SFHs, should stay at Barcroft. That would be a balance/compromise between efficiency/proximity and diversity. [/quote]

This should be what happens. [/quote]

And it may be quite likely to happen.  But people shouldn't presume there won't be many children in Gilliam place.  Arlington Mill Residences generated 60+ students just to Barcroft, plus some to option programs and middle and high schools.  a "limited # of family units" doesn't mean there will be a limited # of families or partial families living there.  Both one and two-bedroom units easily house kids.[/quote]

The Berkeley is going to generate at least 100 students, most them disadvantaged. The Berkeley alone is a planning unit and currently has about 40 k-5 students, according to APS stats. And that's with 137 apartments total, and with only 60 of those being  2 or 3 bedroom units.

It's being expanded to 256 units total, with 200 of those being two or three bedrooms. Another 40 are one bedrooms. So the number of units suitable for families will more than triple. So when I say the Berkeley will have 100 students, that's probably a lowball figure. [/quote]

And yet when an AH project is actually approved in north Arlington, the community is assured it will be senior housing.  How about 200 2-3 bedroom units at that American Legion project instead?[/quote]

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