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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live and work in Alexandria, and don’t know anyone who thinks this is a positive thing. [/quote]

Then expand your bubble. [/quote]

This thread is about Alexandria, dumbass.[/quote]

NP - Real life Alexandrian here. Suspecting you, like many of my neighbors, are incapable of much beyond your expressions of dissatisfaction and outrage.

[b]This one of the more exciting things to happen to our area.[/b] Frankly, I'm sick of the repetitive complaint-filled convos about bike lanes, renaming streets, our crap schools and affordable housing. The arena the first improvement in a LONGGGGG time that the whole community can enjoy.

Or is that too much fun for you to handle?[/quote]

I live in Del Ray, a 15-minute walk from the proposed site, and I am not excited. I favor most development and would be happy if they tore down the big box stores there now and built denser multi-use retail and housing. But a 20000 seat arena is a different beast and is likely going to be a traffic disaster for Lynhaven and north Del Ray. I suspect those Alexandrians who are excited about this do not live right next door. Would you want this a 15-minute walk from your house?[/quote]

With the 70 acres in discussion, exchanging the arena with housing would bring way more than 20,000 residents.

I’d much rather have people visit and spending their money, have 20,000+ live here full time and strain city resources further (schools, sewers, etc.).

If anything, the arena is the lesser evil compared to what could happen if planning and development were left to the fools on city council.

(And don’t thank/blame any of the them for this deal. The arena was far beyond their pay grade.)
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20,000 residents wouldn't fit on 70 acres unless you're talking about Manhattan style density. But also, all of those residents wouldn't be trying to arrive and depart at the exact same time four nights per week the way attendees at a hockey or basketball game will. And they wouldn't be driving around surrounding neighborhoods looking for parking. [/quote]

I’d argue that more full-time residents would be worse. They’d be leaving and returning each day during rush hour. Neither of us can pretend to know the precise number of units that could fit, but the issue here is the city is thirsty for density.

The consensus seems that people prefer the space to stay as-is, but that isn’t an option.

With this city council, it’s either this stadium or some other uninspired development that might cause even more issues. Improving traffic is drastically easier to solve when compared to the social justice warriors the city faces just to get a new high school.

Tax revenue from people who leave is better than tax revenue from people who stay and require more services.

Finally we’ll have cash flow from something other than real estate taxes. Smile. This is a good thing.

As yes, it’s inconvenient for people who live in the nearby proximity but the council has also been clear they don’t care about you.

I wouldn’t expect that you’d like one of their alternatives much better.

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