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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like Arlington County is going to buy land in the northern part of the county that would be ideal for adding density, exactly what missing middle is for.  This could add some much needed diversity to the northern part of the county and the land has significance to African Americans.  Instead they are talking about making it a park for the rich white people in north Arlington.  I cannot believe the hypocrisy. Pathetic Arlington.  https://www.arlnow.com/2023/07/11/arlington-could-buy-a-property-within-what-was-once-a-secluded-black-settlement-for-100-years/[/quote]

You do understand that the land is located in the Pimmit Water Shed and a resource protection area.  The Walker brothers originally sold part of the land  to a formerly enslaved man because it had no economic value to them.    Unless the EPA greatly changes its requirements for resource protection areas and a major, expensive engineering feat is undertaken to divert water out of the Primmit Run Water Shed it would be extremely expensive to build on the land. As my mentor said:  "the juice ain't worth the sqeeze."     Parkland  may be the best use for the land, particularly since more heat islands are being created in the county by dense development, such as Missing Middle Housing.

As you know the 94 acre Glencarlyn Park in South Arlington has similar features and it would be difficult to build housing in that area.  It along with the Long Branch Nature Center provide greenspace for Arlington County.

If you want to see more affordable housing built,  please support the Langston Blvd. Alliance that plans to build 6,000 housing units along Langston Blvd, much of it for people at the 60% AMI level.  You do understand that most of the recent park development has also been in South Arlington, such as the new Jennie Dean park along Four Mile Run.

I am not a defender of Arlington's policies -- but in this case --  you have your panties in a twist  for naught. [/quote]

Only part of it is in the resource protection area and the rest can and should be developed.  There are more than enough parks in that part of the county.   [/quote]

But it is all in the Pimmit Water Shed. How do you propose to divert the water? [/quote]

If you look at a map there is plenty of room behind Richmond St for a new road with development or at least cul de sacs with development.  [/quote]

You sound like the YIMBYs who insisted MM housing could be built on 20,000 square foot lots in Bellevue Forest.  Only problem is that to engineer the lots to support even one house would cost millions in engineering and retaining walls.  But with your experience, I defer to you.  I am a mere civil engineer who has consulted on many similar projects, including one about a half mile away in Fairfax County.   [/quote]

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