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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of this talk about the feasibility of developing affordable housing along Lee Highway is a waste of time unless/until someone can point to an actual parcel that could be a candidate, or at least provides some other kind of concrete data to support the feasibility. When that happens, I'm happy to discuss it further. Until then, I'm done with us spinning our wheels on this.[/quote]

To clarify, this is not because I oppose AH along Lee Highway. I live in NW not far off of Lee Highway, and I would welcome it into the neighborhood. I am tired of this rhetoric that we could put all kinds of AH along Lee Highway in the Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery regions if only the racist/elitist community wouldn't fight it tooth and nail. In the dozen years I have lived here, I cannot think of a single instance of a proposed AH development around here, let alone one the neighborhood fought against. And when you look at the land use around here, it makes sense why it hasn't been proposed.[/quote]

So it’s fine to support it in theory while knowing that it’s not feasible?[/quote]

Recognizing the logistical challenges it presents is the same as opposing it? You're confusing fact and opinion there; it's usually helpful to keep those separate.

Also, it may become feasible down the road, but it's not going to be through one-off purchases of parcels to throw up an AH building, it will have to happen through more comprehensive planning. The Lee Highway Alliance is working on this (and creating affordable housing as part of the mix is in their Guiding Principles statement), but the fact that the LHA had to be formed in the first place is a sign of just how challenging a task it is to redevelop it in a comprehensive way.[/quote]

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