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If Arlington is going to essentially claim street parking surrounding this school as a county resource by banning or removing any and all neighborhood parking restrictions, does that mean that they will also do so in all other Arlington neighborhoods that have them?

There is certainly a problem if only certain neighborhoods lose protected parking but others don't.

That’s the collective chuckle from Yorktown. That whole neighborhood is restricted parking. No way will they ever lose it.

If Career Center is built without a garage I will spend all of my time lobbying for a County-wide ban on restricted parking within a mile of all schools.

I never understand people that take this tactic: "things suck for me, so they have to suck for you too. Because equity!" You know that making things sucky for other people in no way makes your life any better, right? What a silly thing to spend "all of [your] time" on.

Also, as someone who lives on a street with restricted parking right next to a busy commercial district, I can attest to the fact that the county does not enforce parking restrictions. Cars are parked outside my house all day, every day, long past the time limits. So this fight is even more of a waste of time.[/quote]

I mean the prevailing viewpoint in North Arlington seems to be "things are awesome for me. I'm ignore that things suck for you and act like anything South of 50 is its own self-contained County."  I think if half the stuff the County pulls on South Arlington was ever tried in North Arlington there would be massive pushback.  Imagine if literally anything about the Career Center was being tried north of Lee Highway. It would have been shut down immediately.

Since South Arlington has no political clout and thanks to County entrenched housing policy will never accumulate the wealth to change that, the best possible play is to push, hard, for every negative thing happening in the South to happen equally in the North with the hope that it will lead to county-wide solutions.

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This is sad but true.  Until people of importance feel the pain, nothing will ever change.[/quote]

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