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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or what? You’ll vote for that guy who wants to give even less to schools?
Great plan,Chief![/quote]

Yes. Let’s just do nothing and then complain about it later. Good approach. 
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You think making the situation affirmatively worse is better than maintaining the status quo for one more year? I don't think you understand the dynamics here. Vihstadt is willing to do far more for schools than de Ferranti, and [b]he's opposed to further expansion of AH [/b]while de Ferranti supports its expansion. If we vote out Vihstadt in favor of de Ferranti, the message we will send to the CB is that voters want AH and don't want more money going to schools.

Dorsey and Cristol (both of whom are hostile to school funding) are both up for reelection in 2019. That's the year to make our statement. Not this year.[/quote]

Cite please?   [/quote]

He's not wholly opposed to AH, but he definitely favors greater restraint in its growth than the rest of the board:

Last December, Vihstadt voted against a proposal for the county surplus (which ultimately passed anyway) in part because he didn't think extra funds should be allocated to the Affordable Housing Investment Fund: https://www.arlnow.com/2017/11/29/board-allocates-closeout-funds-to-affordable-housing-other-items/

Vihstadt supports mixed-income buildings and developments rather than 100% affordable/low-income units and opposed a proposal to require projects involving public facilities such as community centers to also include affordable housing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ideas-for-adding-affordable-housing-will-get-airing-in-arlington-saturday/2015/03/26/2cc83798-d25f-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html?utm_term=.e30a6a930958

Was the only "no" vote on a proposal to make it harder for developers to convert multi-family dwellings to SFHs (a practice that tends to reduce the amount of affordable housing): https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/arlington-creates-housing-conservation-district--but-some-say-too-quickly/2017/12/16/db9c91a6-e283-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html?utm_term=.8ab2b3b893e3

He also had some choice comments in the joint SB/CB work session this spring, but I'm not going to sift through a couple of hours of video to find them, you can watch it for yourself.[/quote]

He tends to side with individual homeowners. Someone in this county should.[/quote]

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