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[quote=Anonymous]Oh goodness, you know nothing about Arlington or McLean.  The 1227 N. Utah St. house is in Ballston with a bunch of new houses being built around it.  It was originally a single family home, and was converted to two 2 bedrooms, 1 bath apartments and one 1 bedroom, 1 bath in the basement.  It is also on a small lot. The lots in both the Arlington and McLean parts of Chain Bridge Forest are from a quarter to an acre. What would make them attractive to missing middle housing is their topography.  Many have lot that slope down hill, so that you could build a quadplex that looked like two stories from the front but would actually have two stores on the back.  The two "below grade" levels would have plenty of light.  There area also no nearby amenities found in the Ballston area but the schools are much more desirable, and that is the point of building missing middle  housing in that area.

Our house in Arlington was a 1940s colonial on a 5,800 square foot lot.  We had maxed out the yard space with an addition.  Our house in Chesterbrook Woods is twice as large and the lot is a little over a half acre.  So it was not a direct swap.

McLean High School offers a number of AP classes that Yorktown does not.  We continue to supplement the math classes with RSM, so we pay only for that private schooling.

Both the private and parochial schools managed to absorb many students during the pandemic and have the capacity to do more. Sycamore School moved to a new building, and both St. Agnes and St. Ann added classes.  There is a good deal of vacant office building space in Arlington, and it would be easy for a private school to move in to any of that space.  A Montessori school is moving into some retail space in my mom's Arlington condo building, and the HB Woodlawn program is in an office building in Rosslyn.

Rivendell also just built out its school and could add more classes.

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