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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To start fixing the poverty issue in South Arlington schools, you need to go back to the Columbia Pike Neighborhoods Plan and Form Based Code.

https://arlingtonva.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2014/03/Columbia-Pike.pdf

The plan was designed to ensure that South Arlington never  gentrifies.  The goals of the Neighborhood Plan state:

a) Retain or replace all (100%) of the current market rate affordable units (MARKS) with rents affordable to households earning at or below 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI) within the next 30 years. This equates to approximately 3,000 units based on the County’s 2010 Rent & Vacancy Survey.
b) Retain or replace all (100%) of the current MARKS with rents affordable to households earning between 60% and 80% of the AMI within the next 30 years. This equates to approximately 3,200 units based on the County’s 2010 Rent & Vacancy Survey.
c) Retain or replace all existing committed affordable
housing units (i.e. CAF’s).

And the plan allowed for the transfer of development/density rights from complexes like the Barcroft Apartments (which are designated a "conservation area") to areas like the Penrose developments.

Rezoning schools to address high concentrations of poverty is like attempting to bail out the Titanic.  [/quote]

I can not imagine the echo chamber involved with crafting that bullshit plan. I’ve gone to meetings with one of my neighbors who helped craft it. He’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with south Arlington. 
That plan is nothing that someone  who paid 800k for their home would agree to, but I don’t see it being amended any time soon. 
I do think of all the UMC of south Arlington came together ( regardless of whichever neighborhood school) and said we don’t accept any school in south Arlington having a FRL rate above 50%, it would make an impact. It would also mean they would  have to involve north arlignton in some way to make the numbers work. [/quote]

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