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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted earlier in this thread and wanted to echo the person who encouraged people to get involved in their neighborhood associations. I'm in my early 40s with kids in elementary school and became more active on the neighborhood board in recent years.  Yes, I would probably enjoy PTA more.  But I could see that our association was being dominated by the 50/60 something empty nesters when I attended a neighborhood meeting once to complain about speeding on a street heavily used by kids going back and forth to a playground. I was told that there was nothing to be done because it wasn't in the Neighborhood Conservation Plan that they had voted for almost 10 years ago!  It had already been decided (back then) that our "conservation points" were going to be allocated to new street lights. They would not raise my issue to the county because they were still trying to get their street lights updated per the "plan" and didn't want to detract attention from the "real" issue. Over the past four years we've gotten more involvement in our neighborhood board from the Gen-Xers and new millenials moving in and the tone has changed, but I imagine this is not the case in other Arlington neighborhoods.  I agree there is a north/south divide, but also a generational divide within neighborhoods. Talk to anyone in your neighborhood over the age of 50 about the iPad for every second grader initiative and their blood just boils- paper and pencil worked for them and for their kids- why do we need to spend money to give every kid a fancy electronic device.  It makes for colorful conversations.[/quote]

We got in an argument with our civic association about the design of a park renovation. The design the parents in the neighborhood came up with had a water feature, a climbing structure, and play equipment. After the initial design was approved, the really old folks (I mean--lots of people in their 70's and 80's) showed up en masse and insisted that the design revert to how it was back in the 1960's. (!!!) So we have a bathroom, two swings, and a slide. [/quote]

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