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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington needs to increase their park and rec offerings before they encourage more population growth. The competition for camps, swimming lessons, gymnastics, etc are already cutthroat. It’s crazy to pretend like we have capacity to absorb more people without expanding parks.[/quote]

If they added more options, would you support the proposal? Asking because many posters are complaining about specific effects (for example, parking) as if the county would gain their approval by fixing it.

Arlington did listen and addressed concerns about the size of multi-family housing. Structures must adhere to the same setbacks and heights as single family homes. But let’s get real—new complaints will arise each round because there are people who will not support missing middle housing in their neighborhood under any circumstances.

And that’s fine. Just be honest and say that. I’d rather the county focus on real concerns than trying to please people who will never be happy. [/quote]

I agree with you, but both sides need to be brutally honest.  The county equally needs to say, “Look, the schools are going to be a lot more crowded and we don’t  have space money for more big parks.  Housing is the priority and we will do what we can about the rest.”  It needs to be said and the people fighting for these changes really need to understand and internalize the consequences.  Stop pretending like we can have everything. [/quote]

Bingo!

Arlington County creates all these groups to determine what should be done in Arlington.  People who have time to participate are the retired old white men and women who likely worked for the government or had a middle class job.    Only younger people are the true believer YIMBYs who internalized some social welfare policy during graduate school.  Until something "bad" happens like you next door neighbor tearing down a house to build 4 duplexes, many people don't care.  Then it will be a fait accompli.  It's like the schools.  Many parents paid cursory attention to the schools as long as their kids seemed to be doing okay and teacher conference reports were good.  It was only when virtual school occurred during the pandemic that people realized their kids were not learning what they had learned at the same grade levels.  Those who could put their kids in private or parocial schools.  It almost feels like a policy to relieve overcrowding by making APS worse, thus forcing parents to other alternatives.

We are moving fast toward a County with those who can have a nice house and send their kids to private schools, the middle class who will inhabit the duplexes and send their kids to deteriorating schools, and the lower class who will live in crappy subsidized housing and know that any education their kids is better than it would be elsewhere.[/quote]

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