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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d have to look at the specifics here, but obviously, there need to be more affordable housing solutions in this area. I love to see what other cities and communities have done with tiny home communities.

Stable housing goes a long way for anyone who has fallen on hard times. Study after study shows this.

I will follow this with interest.[/quote]

I am not opposed to affordable housing solutions, but parking minimum reductions or waivers need to be tied to truly walkable development. Not a bus stop or a miles from the metro station. It needs to be walking distance to a metro station. [/quote]

I think anything within 1.5 miles of a metro stop should be high density so that the rest of the county can be left alone. What’s the problem with that? [/quote]

1.5 miles is too far, because that is not walkable. Many of these people will still be driving to work, if they cannot walk to the metro station. Also, that would increase the allowable zoned density too much and overwhelm the schools. This would result in around 36,200 acres of the county being subject to the zoning change. If you made this area 40 units per acre by right. The minimum allowable housing units for this area would be equal to 1,447,000 units [b]which is 3.3 times the entire existing housing supply in the county! [/b] This level of development would completely overwhelm local infrastructure, schools and be disastrous for the county. I would suggest a 1/2 mile radius with a by right minimum of 10 units per acre and a 1/4 mile radius with a by right minimum of 40 units per acre.  This would allow a minimum of around 10,000 units within walking distance of each metro station and not overwhelm the county's capacity to provide additional government services. The the total allowable density for this transit oriented development area area would be around 100,000 units which is equal to around 20% of the existing housing supply. Would allow plenty of room for future growth. [/quote]

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