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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there were a lot of issues with MM (the package that got passed, the lengthy yet shallow process, etc). [b] But at the end of the day, we can just move if it's that bad.  [/b]Arlington isn't the "be all end all." The schools are just ok to good-ish, the neighborhoods aren't very charming, and the only major positive is proximity to DC.  I think people have really lost perspective. But I do understand the utter frustration with our county overlords.  They aren't the sharpest tools in the shed for sure!  [/quote]
That's a really obnoxious thing to say.  In addition to having built a community of friends in Arlington, many of us have invested into our homes.  It's not that easy to "just move."

We happen to live next door to a gentleman who has lived in his home for almost 70 years.  He's recently started having health problems. There's a very, very significant chance that his tiny house is going to be replaced by a 6plex in the next few years.  So, do we stay in a home that we love and have spent a lot of money to remodel to our tastes and risk living next door to an apartment building?  Do we risk the loss of privacy and quiet enjoyment of our yard?  Do we risk the drop in our property value?  Or do we move now and give up our interest rate and move our kids away from their friends?  We'd been planning to stay in this house until our kids were in college, so probably another 15-20 years.  It's literally a decision that affects if our leafy backyard remains private or is next door to a multistory apartment building.[/quote]

We were concerned about the same thing happening in our neighborhood and asked an agent at a nearby new house that was open on Sunday.    She said that most of the people who had been to the open house were from DC, Clarendon, Ballston, and Alexandria and wanted to be away from the density and other issues.   The builder of that house has permits to do MM housing in areas closer to Ballston which are already a mixed bag. She said he would rather build houses in neighborhoods like ours because there was a demand for people who wanted to get away from the density. She said he had just bought a house a few blocks away from someone who had lived there for nearly the same amount of time as your neighbor and he didn't even consider MM.

Maybe our neighborhoods will survive without the apartment buildings.[/quote]

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