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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised that people young enough to have kids in APS don't support MM. In my neighborhood,  the anti-MM are mostly elderly or people in bigass new builds who go private.[/quote]

Because young APS parents like me tend not to suffer as much from some common Boomer and Gen Xer afflictions: view homes as retirement accounts, fear of neighborhood change, anxiety over more neighbors, lack of faith in government’s ability to solve problems, and expectation that housing policy should be geared toward juicing property values. Perks of not growing up steeped in Reaganism?[/quote]

Millennial homeowner here. If I was only concerned about home value I’d be pro-missing middle.

I’m pro-affordable housing, not in favor of recklessly increasing population density with no plan for the impacts of it. [/quote]

MM isn't about affordable housing. It's about offering a wider range of types of houses at a wider range of prices in a wider range of places. A MM duplex is still going to be pretty effing expensive.

Do you see how reckless it is not to increase density? You're advocating for sprawl.

There are going to be more people in the area. Please suggest a realistic place to put them. And if your answer is "Elsewhere. Arlington is full," congratulations, I guess, on making it clear what your values are.

I agree that planning for a larger population is not an Arlington strength. But a lot of the blame falls on citizens who won't accept plans that have a downside for them (such as more traffic in a particular area during school start and end times, or a larger school population at their school, or smaller fields). A lot also lies with the County and School Boards, who give in to whiners and who will announce that something can't be done because it would be hard or expensive (such as working with FC to address traffic at the Carlin Springs/Kenmore site)

But Audrey Clement? She wants a seat so much she'll say anything to get it. No way an actual Green will push back against MM, which is one of the few ways Arlington can do anything to help with sprawl at all. [/quote]

Huh? No, I didn't say any of that at all. I am for increasing the population density as long as there are plans to handle the impacts of it.

I'd accept the argument that parents blame much of the burden *if* the CB seemed to care about schools at all. But I don't even know when the last time was that they fully funded the schools, and I think that is a bare minimum. [/quote]

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