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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't stand 123 in Vienna, so much traffic. 
Love Del Ray (schools not too good though). Falls Church City is cute [/quote]

Del Ray is fine. Good main street with local small businesses. It's a shame that you only need to go a few blocks before you're back in suburban hell (potomac yard center).[/quote]

[i]PY north is hardly suburban hell[/i]  - it is a single big box shopping center.  And its going to be replaced by a dense, mixed use, urban town center (with a metro station!)  The big boxes were always intended as a place holder.

That said, as others point out, it is not a great commute to Tysons[/quote]

Land use discussion of PY North on Greater Greater Washington in the recent past already has referenced it as a new potential Mid Atlantic coast slum in decades due to lack of adequate roads and density of row homes. Kind of like Baltimore in many ways.

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link please?  The above makes no sense. PY North will be mostly multifamily, THs are in PY South.  There is going to be a full street grid in PY, as well as a BRT line and a metro station (and its pretty bikeable as well).  And GGW generally does not associate density with slums.  Are you talking about one of the NIMBYs who trolls GGW?

BTW, doesn't sound like you know much about Baltimore either.  [/quote]

I am no troll, and you'll have to find it yourself. I read the comment in the recent past under "comments", made by a land use specialist who apparently has deep concern about the build out of Potomac Yards. He/she wasn't alone in concern about it's potential for bad urban density sprawl. As to Baltimore, wrong again pp. Did my training there, return there, know it well.[/quote]

Again, link please.  Urban density is NOT sprawl.  And it does not lead to slums.

As to Baltimore, it A. has many successful dense neighborhoods B. Its slums are a legacy of racism, industrial decline, and disinvestment.  There are also slums across the country that suffered from the same things at much lower densities than Baltimore.   So again, you may have spent time in Baltimore, but you do not appear familiar with its history or the issues that have impacted its development.  [/quote]

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