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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It comes down to different notions of what's "fair" in NA and SA. If I paid 800k to live in NA and send my kid to a school with less than 20% farms, it'd be natural for me to think, y'know, you get what you pay for. If you want nice things, you have to pay for them. I can understand that, but on the other hand, in SA, one might say, why is it fair for any school to be over 80% poor? That's not just some neutral outcome, like where leaves land on a windy day in October. We draw boundaries, we zone property, we encourage or discourage certain kinds of development. That's how it happens. Preserving huge swaths of contiguous affordable housing is THE cause of our segregated schools. Instead of "saving" all of barcroft they should have redeveloped half of it, and built new, not so fancy AH elsewhere to offset the loss. You know where.

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Or not build it at all, since everybody seems to agree that it causes problems.[/quote]

Lets push all the poor people out of the County does not seem to be a winning position in Arlington County, thank goodness. [/quote]

Yes, please stay in the county, but don't congregate near any SFH.[/quote]

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