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[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]

Are you referring to Eleanor Roosevelt who came to the neighborhood to personally hand the keys to the first homeowner who used an FHA loan to buy a house?  The neighborhood then had a racial covenant, a building restriction covenant, and FHA had a redlining program.  Or are you talking about those fine white New Dealers who built the concrete block wall between Halls Hill and the Waycroft/Woodlawn neighborhood to keep out the Halls Hill blacks.  The new fine white residents of Waycroft/Woodlawn won't tear down the wall because of its "historic" significance.  Maybe they will do it as soon as Halls Hills is completely gentrified by Missing Middle housing.

Look no further than the all white members of the liberal YIMBY group who want Missing Middle housing so that their children can go to the white schools in North Arlington rather than the diverse schools in North Arlington and South Arlington.  As with everything liberals do, it has a negative effect on the people it is supposed to help.  Missing Middle housing will benefit affluent whites who want a townhouse in the Discovery school district rather than the Long Branch district.    [/quote]

The local YIMBY groups are completely disingenuous.  They mostly want what’s in “your” backyard, anyway.

I’ve followed a couple of the groups online and their complete lack of understanding of the issues at hand is shocking.[/quote]

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