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Why don't we just stop building CAFs entirely? They aren't going to be built north of Lee Highway, so at this point we're just working on building ghettos. [/quote]

Its an industry that is totally baked into our local politics. Its a system, not a line item. I'm not saying it's corrupt but a lot of people's livelihoods depend o  it. It's totally institutionalized.
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That was hard for me to understand when I first moved here. Many young families are naive and assume their neighborhood school is going to naturally improve as more familes with kids move into Douglas Park, Alcova etc... as you become educated to the Arlington Way, you come to understand why that will never happen.
North Arlington homeowners are much more savvy when it come to this. That’s why Lee Highway has take so long to develop. They know what they are doing.[/quote]
...so how do we fix it?

I mean, I am probably one of those naive people you are talking about. For every CAF though, more market rate housing is being built. I can't imagine everyone buying 1million + townhouses is going private...[/quote]

There are 800 sfh’s in Douglas Park ( there about)
There are over 3,000’s low rent apts- and another 1000 more being planned for Barcroft apts...
I was naive too. I bought in DP right as they were finishing the renovations on West Village ( I think that’s that name/ corner of 4mile and Walter Reed). I was so cute back then. I thought the plan was to renovate all the way to South George Mason. I mean why wouldn’t they? Barcroft apts are old and crumbling. Certainly there was demand for more middle class housing? I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying. Not only is there no plan to upgrade those shitty apts, they have zoned them into perpetuity and are working on adding to them.  Even if every single family household sent a kid to elementary school at Randolph ( not ever possible anywhere)  it could never NEVER keep pace with those apts. They have 6 months leases and new families move in every day. 
They would have to do something extreme to fix the Randolph/Barcroft  elementary school boundary. I think they should. But whatever ...
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[b]What's the plan for adding 1000 AH to Barcroft apts?  When/where?  [/b]That has to be stopped.
There was an advocacy effort to restrict adding CAFs to school zones with more than 45% FRL  One CB was willing to restrict in zones higher than 65%; but nobody else was interested in any moratorium because "what if another Presbyterian Church opportunity comes along?"  Well, that's THE POINT! Those areas don't NEED another Presbyterian Church opportunity!  MAKE opportunities in the 0-15% school zones.[/quote]

It's in the Columbia Pike Neighborhoods Plan. It would be infill development within the Barcroft Apartments property on the S side of Columbia Pike. There are no specific proposals right now, but the Plan has laid the blueprint for future development. Not sure that it will ever come to pass, but the plans they have only further concentrate the density and poverty where it already exists.

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