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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the developer is finally starting the missing middle building on our street.  It will have four 3 bed apartments and two 2 bed apartments.  If three people live in the 3 beds and two people in the 2 beds, that's 16 people on a lot where 4 people had lived and three parking spaces where there had been a garage and a long driveway.    [/quote]

You would think people would clue into the fact that its rarely the building itself, or the people that live in that that are the problem. But rather the cars that come with them that is the problem.

When the transportation model negatively impacts the housing model, maybe its time to rethink transportation, no? [/quote]

I agree that for many people, the main objection is the cars (but the parking! but the traffic!) Unfortunately for some people, the main objection is the people. :cry: And they don't just say that stuff anonymously on line; they say it in person at public meetings, too.[/quote]

That's because people were lied to in public meetings. Arlington originally spun MM housing as "affordable housing," rather than housing that is "more affordable than the $1 million single family house."  That got a bad rap for MM and people envisioned Buckingham Apartments moving to their neighborhood.  I was even at a meeting when an Arl Co council member lied to the Buckingham Tenants Committe saying they could afford MM housing.  As the realities emerged, people realized that they would be the poor people in the neighborhoods as MM townhouses and side by sides would be $1.5 M and rents in the plexes would be $3K to $5K.  [/quote]

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