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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington doesn’t [i]want[/i] a middle class.

North Arlington (looking at you, Lyon Park) wants to be rich people only, and they want their domestic help living in South Arlington.

There’s no room for the rest of you peasants. [/quote]

No where is this clearer than the giant subdivision being built at the corner of Wilson and McKinley in the Falls Church border. It was a once in a generation opportunity to buy such a large plot of land that could have been a 4th high school. Since there was no way for the county to get its act together and actually plan, it will be houses. But not just any houses - it will be all r-6 lot zoned SFH. What a freaking waste of space along Wilson with bus service to EFC and Ballston. It could have been new SFH on the part that connects into Dominion Hills, townhouses in the middle, and garden apartments or smaller townhouses along Wilson. With some adjoined housing, they could have even had space for a pool or playground and some basketball or pickle all courts.

The plot being developed is connected my neighborhood and it’s such a shame.

So much of missing middle hinges on trying to squeeze in more housing options amid established neighborhoods without disturbing the balance of trees, trash pick-up and parking. This was a huge area available to design from scratch. Instead they’re just replicating the 1945 neighborhood layout it adjoins. [/quote]

You answer your own complaint. They can’t get act together or build 4th high school but wish they densities that plot?  It’s good they didn’t because 4th high is never happening [/quote]

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