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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Susan will likely struggle to find that any plan or proposal is sufficiently planned or researched, because when your political base is built upon opposing stuff, it's sorta hard to figure out what you should be for. That and she seems to desperately want to be part of the Democratic establishment, which is gross. At least John Vihstadt had the courage and decency not to pretend to be some he wasn't.
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Yes, this! Playing footsie with NIMBYs is a losing game for anyone who cares about solving problems. When local NIMBY groups say they want “better planning,” “smart growth,” or “budget forecasts,” it’s all subterfuge. They could get each and every one of those things, and they’ll still be unsatisfied. Because their real goal is to oppose new development, anywhere, full stop. They don’t like tall buildings, they don’t want more people to live here, and they don’t want the look of their neighborhoods to change (even if the residents change as the wealth required to live there surges).

Maybe Susan will learn that lesson as a board member after she sees the usual NIMBYs rally against every affordable housing project that comes to the board, despite their insistence that they “support affordable housing.”[/quote]

Perhaps Susan will actually listen to the residents of Arlington and their wants and needs rather than pretend to care? The residents of Arlington county choose to live here because it is a wonderful suburb of DC - they do not want to live in a city. There are some board members and potential board members that are so progressive that they are trying to sell off every inch of this county to developers that will get rid of everything that makes Arlington so nice to live in. And their motivations are not for the residents as we have seen by Cristol's exit right into a job with a big developer. They are using this county for their own personal agendas.[/quote]

Who is "they"? A common NIMBY mistake is to assume that everyone thinks exactly as they do. You're ignoring the many Arlington residents who told the County, in survey responses and feedback forms and public testimony, that they support the missing middle initiative. Not to mention that you're ignoring majority of Arlington voters who resoundingly rejected Audrey Clement's anti-MM campaign. Some home owners definitely fit your description, to be fair. Neither they nor you speak for all Arlington residents or even most of them.

Side note - Katie's new job isn't with "a big developer." It's with a non-profit business improvement district, much like the Langston Boulevard Alliance. She can apply her experience as an Arlington county board member to help make Tysons less car dependent, more transit accessible, and an overall better place to live and work.[/quote]

Tysons is a pretty nice place to live and work now.   That's why so many Arlington residents are moving to McLean and Vienna and why so many people who once wanted to live in Arlington now bypass it to be closer to Tysons.

Same with Falls Church City. While Arlington has been playing around with Plan Langston (Lee) Blvd. for nearly a decade, Falls Church City has worked with private developers to redevelop Broad St. They are taking businesses away from Arlington with a more walkable community without the Orange Lines density.[/quote]

Just wait until KC gets her hands on Tysons...she will play the same hand she did in ARL. Will be fun to see the push back she gets from the homeowners out there wrt to increased density agenda.[/quote]
Has there been any impediments to development at Tysons? [/quote]

Tysons has been under development for the past 15 years - homeowners are fatigued. New development is not going to go over well.[/quote]

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