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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS enrollment has declined due to the fact it blows.[/quote]

APS enrollment has declined due to the fact that young families cannot afford to live here.[/quote]

+1.  They need to allow market rate multifamily housing.  I understand why nobody who bought a SFH likes the idea of being sandwiched between 6-plexes of rentals, but they really ought to allow duplexes and 3 row townhouses everywhere.  In reality, those will be sold to slightly less rich families. I think it would stabilize neighborhoods and schools.  The choice between multimillion dollar SFHs or Affordable Housing is terrible for the County.[/quote]

I’m a SFH owner in Arlington (bought a smaller, older place pre-COVID that we’ve renovated). I would love for duplexes and triplexes to be allowed. It’s kind of depressing that the new families who move in all make big law level salaries (FWIW I couldn’t afford my own neighborhood today as a dual fed GS-14 couple).

Also a duplex or triplex can’t possibly be worse than the giant box houses being put up now. 6000k + sq ft for a family of 4 in a zip code with limited land close to transit and under-enrolled schools is just stupid.

Sure our property value has gone up a ton over the past decade, which is nice, but I’d rather not pull up the ladder behind me. Also it makes me sad my kids will unlikely be able to buy a home nearby if they decide to stay.[/quote]

The triplex is worse because it generates at least triple the cars (or more if it becomes a group home) and triple the strain on sewar and water.  Perhaps the schools could handle it right now with current under enrollment as families went to private [/quote]
Only if you build triplexes exclusively in far North Arlington at the few schools that may be temporarily having flat or slightly less enrollment, because they are the only ones.  The rest of the schools are bursting at the seams. So if they want to multiplex there, be my guest.  The rest of the County is full and the infrastructure cannot support hundreds of additional families. [/quote]

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