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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Green Valley where a lot of old houses are being torn down to build duplexes or townhomes. Those duplexes and townhomes are around 900K. The older SFH in the neighborhood are less.

Anyway, not sure 900K plus is really what the county was looking for with this proposal. I don't see how these new builds in any other neighborhood are going to be less money considering my neighborhood is already one of the least expensive in Arlington. [/quote]

I think the county knew this would be 900k+ housing. The middle part is the type of housing stock. It’s not a high rise apartment/condo building and it’s not a $2m SFH. So the ~$1m duplexes/triplexes are the “middle.” The targeted buyers are the couples making 200-300k/year.

The long term problem though is that upzoning increases land value. So I think this will speed up price increases in Arlington. But the alternative is to let all this desirable land be taken over by giant homes so that future generations have no choice but the live in a 6k sq Ft house basically when many people don’t want to live in something that big. In fact a lot of my friends/neighbors in these large houses say they would have liked something somewhat smaller but they wanted new construction, or didn’t want a total fixer or whatever. So this was what the market was selling. Of course I wonder if they would have settled for shared walls? Presumably someone will though. Look at DC where row houses are the norm. I think UMC will have to embrace shared walls to live close in. [/quote]

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